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Business Questions 16 May 2019
- 16/05/2019
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
No CommentsSince the beginning of the 20th century, the House has routinely sat for 150 days a year. This Session is now double that, and there is absolutely no end in sight. We are now straddling three calendar years.
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Mental health awareness week and the UK’s forests.
- 13/05/2019
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
Why not spend some time in our glorious woodland this mental health awareness week?
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Valerie visits Tate gallery’s Jacob and the Angel at the New Art Gallery Walsall
- 11/05/2019
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
An exciting opportunity awaits visitors to the New Art Gallery in Walsall. Jacob Epstein’s sculpture, Jacob and the Angel, is on display, having been loaned from the Tate with the support of Art Fund.
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Valerie unveils plaque for electrification of Chase Line
- 10/05/2019
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
After many years of work, the electrification of the Chase Line is finally complete. I unveiled a plaque on Friday 10 May 2019 at a cross-party event with the Railways Minister, Andrew Jones MP, and Amanda Milling, the MP for Cannock Chase.
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Business Questions 9 May 2019
- 09/05/2019
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
Many Members are trying on the captain’s hat, even though there is no vacancy for the captain of the ship, but as they look through the periscope, they will see that 200,000 nurses have left the NHS since 2010. If there is not a crisis, why are the Government having to recruit tens of thousands of nurses from overseas? It is because nurses are being driven out of the overstretched NHS owing to the lack of Government funding. Why are we seeing the first sustained fall in GP numbers in the UK in 50 years? Why are they leaving the profession? We also know that 30,000 ambulance staff have quit their jobs. I called for a statement from the Secretary of State for Health on this crisis.