The Latest Breaking News from Taiwo Owatemi

‘Completely disproportionate’: UK tenants feel the bite of ‘pet rent’

Many pet-owning renters are asked to pay surcharges – but the upcoming renters reform bill will require landlords to reconsider their stance

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2025

Controversy sparked by UK politician's 'pet rent' expense claim

The Labour MP Taiwo Owatemi did not break parliamentary rules, but the government has said it now wants them to be revised.

Euronews · Mar 31, 2025

Minister attacks expenses rules after Labour MP’s claim for ‘pet rent’

Watchdog accepted Taiwo Owatemi’s claim for landlord’s surcharge to let her keep dog in London flat

The Guardian - UK · Mar 30, 2025

Coventry MP demands inquiry into 1960s radioactive study on south Asian women

Women were given chapatis containing radioactive isotopes as part of trial into iron deficiency

The Guardian - UK · Aug 25, 2023

MPs call for inquiry into use of ‘alienation’ claims in parental disputes

Concern that unregulated experts’ diagnoses are being used to silence parents or undermine abuse allegations in England and Wales

The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2023

A third of people with long term conditions failed to claim prescriptions due to cost

Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi warned that worries about the price of medication - at £9.35 per item - are leading to many people either skipping or reducing their doses

Daily Mirror · Mar 7, 2023

Black households up to four times more likely to be starving than national average

Exclusive: As the nation grapples with the cost of living crisis, Black and Asian households are most likely to suffer from food shortages

The Independent UK · Apr 6, 2022

Labour demands urgent action as black mums four times likely to suffer miscarriage

In the Commons, Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Taiwo Owatemi said the Government had launched a vision for women's health to solve ethnic disparities in maternal care. But concrete steps have not been set out.

Daily Mirror · Feb 23, 2022

Tories blasted as black women 40% more likely to experience pregnancy loss

Shadow Women and Equalities Minister, Taiwo Owatemi has criticised the Tories for failing to prioritise the inequalities in healthcare that are leaving black women's lives at risk.

Daily Mirror · Feb 8, 2022