News
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Valerie Congratulates GMB on Uber Deal
- 22/02/2022
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
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I met with representatives from the GMB Union at an event in Parliament on Tuesday 22 February 2022.
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Skills and Post-16 Education Bill Report Stage
- 21/02/2022
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
The Skills and Post-16 Education Bill seeks to reform these areas of education. Measures include allowing Employer Representative Bodies for an area to create Local Skills Improvement Plans. On Monday 21 February 2022 I voted on the Bill at Report Stage.
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Valerie visits new Walsall Manor Hospital A&E
- 11/02/2022
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
The existing Accident and Emergency Department at Walsall Manor Hospital is not large enough for the expected growth in patient numbers in the coming years, over 10,000 extra patients a year. Pressures have been added to by the closure of Stafford hospital. On Friday, 11 February 2022, I visited the new A&E department being constructed at the Manor.
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Great Barr Hall and Park and Slaney Road HMO Applications Rejected
- 11/02/2022
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
Applications to build 57 luxury homes on the Green Belt at Great Barr Hall and Park and a HMO at a former care home on Slaney Road were both rejected by Walsall Council Planning Committee on Thursday 10 February 2022.
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Global Vaccine Access Letter
- 10/02/2022
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
I have signed a letter to the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs calling on the Government to meet its commitments on distributing COVID-19 vaccines worldwide. The letter was written after a debate I attended in Westminster Hall on 13 January 2022.