2012 May

On Wednesday 16 May Valerie joined Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen at a dinner hosted at the House of Commons.

On Tuesday 15 May 2012, at Justice Oral Questions, Valerie Vaz, MP for Walsall South, asked the Justice Minister, Crispin Blunt MP, about the performance of the outsourced court interpreters, Applied Language Solutions (ALS).

On 13 May 2012 Valerie was a guest on the BBC Sunday Politics West Midlands Show.  Topics for discussion included the continued closure of Stafford Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department at night, the closure of rural banks in the UK and the recent public sector pension strikes.