2021 July 23
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Valerie signs Early Day Motion opposing cuts to the regional political monitoring of Parliament
- 23/07/2021
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
No CommentsI signed Early Day Motion (EDM) #314 following the announcement of plans to reduce the number of staff working in the BBC Regional Political Unit based at Millbank by over a third.
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Press release: Valerie Vaz MP Requests “Call-in” of Narrow Lane Transit Site Application
- 23/07/2021
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News, Press Releases
“I asked the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities & Local Government to “call-in” the application for a Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Transit Site at Narrow Lane before Walsall Council’s Planning Committee approved it at their meeting on Thursday 15 July 2021. This application will seriously undermine the Government’s national policy commitments, as well as being in breach of the specific national planning guidance ‘Planning Policy for Travellers’ Sites’ (DCLG). The issue of traveller transit sites and unauthorised encampments is of national and regional interest and is the subject of current debate and proposed legislation in parliament and cannot be dismissed as of local interest only.