-
Statement on Syria
- 02/12/2015
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
No CommentsIsil-Daesh must be destroyed. It is responsible for the horrific attacks in Paris and Beirut in November, the killings of 30 British Citizens at Sousse in Tunisia, including Walsall Football Club supporters Joel Richards aged 19, his uncle Adrian Evans, and his grandfather Charles ‘Patrick’ Evans, journalists, aid workers, and thousands of innocent civilians in Syria, most of whom are Muslim.
-
Valerie chairs Westminster seminar on the ‘Role of an MP’
- 02/12/2015
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
On Tuesday 1 December I chaired a session on the Role of an MP as part of the annual Westminster Seminar, CPA UK’s flagship capacity-building programme for first-term parliamentarians and newly appointed procedural/committee Clerks from across the Commonwealth. The programme provides a unique, international platform for its participants to meet their counterparts and explore parliamentary democracy, practice and procedure within a Westminster framework, and share experiences and challenges faced in their parliamentary work.