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Residents have been given just a week’s notice that plans submitted in 2020 for a 37-bedroom HMO on Slaney Road will be decided on this Thursday, 10 February. On 8 February 2022 I wrote to the Chief Executive of Walsall Council and the Planning Services department to object on behalf of my constituents. My letter is pictured below.

An application was heard by the Walsall Council Planning Committee on Thursday 10 February for a development for a wedding/conference centre and 57 new properties on the site of Great Barr Hall and Park. On Monday 7 February 2022 I wrote to the Chief Executive of Walsall Council and the Planning Services department to object .

The Finance (No.2) Bill enacts the measures announced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget. I voted on the Bill as it returned to the Commons for its Report Stage and Third Reading on Wednesday 2 February 2022.

Figures released by HMRC in January stated that £5.8 billion was fraudulently taken from Government pandemic relief schemes such as furlough, self-employment support and business loans, and that the taskforce set up to recover the losses only expected to recover £1.5 billion of that. On 24 January 2022, the Government’s own Minister for counter-fraud in the House of Lords resigned

The Government is due to establish an Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), a new public body which will focus on science and technology projects which are judged to be high-risk, high-pay off, as well as ‘blue-sky’ research. On Monday 31 January 2022, the ARIA Bill returned to the Commons for the consideration of Lords Amendments.