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Business Questions 20 June 2019
- 20/06/2019
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
No CommentsIt is Children’s Hospice Week this week. Hospices across the country are under threat, including one in my constituency, Acorns. It employs 70 people to care for 233 Black Country children and their families. It is facing closure due to lack of Government funding.
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Restoration and Renewal Bill passes House of Commons
- 19/06/2019
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
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Valerie shows solidarity with the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
- 19/06/2019
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
I met Richard Ratcliffe outside the Iranian embassy in London on Wednesday 19 June 2019. Richard Ratcliffe is husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. They are both on hunger strikes in protest against his Nazanin’s imprisonment in Tehran.
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Valerie and Black country MPs meet with Acorns Chief Executive and bereaved parent
- 19/06/2019
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
On Tuesday 18 June 2019, at a meeting with other Black Country MPs, I spoke with Mark Lyttle whose daughter, Isabella, passed away at the hospice earlier this year. I also met with Acorns Chief Executive to discuss ways to prevent the proposed closure of Walsall Children’s Hospice.
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Valerie responds to backbench business debate on the Cox report
- 19/06/2019
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
I responded to a backbench business debate on the implementation of the Cox report on bullying and harassment in Parliament on Tuesday 19 June 2019.