News
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Valerie signs the Holocaust Educational Trust Book of Commitment
- 22/01/2019
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
No CommentsI have signed the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Book of Commitment, pledging my commitment to Holocaust Memorial Day and honouring those murdered during the Holocaust as well as acknowledging the extraordinary work carried out by Holocaust survivors to educate young people today. Sunday 27th January will mark the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the site of the largest mass murder in history.
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Meeting with Residents on the Nether Hall Estate
- 19/01/2019
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
I held a meeting at Great Barr War Memorial Hall on Saturday 19 January 2019 to hear residents’ concerns about the Netherhall Park Estate. Residents told me about snagging issues in their homes, the state of public landscaping across the estate and the difficulties they have had with maintenance and repair from Bovis Homes and the management company SDL Bigwood.
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Business Questions 17 January 2019
- 17/01/2019
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
In yesterday’s confidence vote debate the Prime Minister said: “when you have worked hard all your life, you will get a good pension and security and dignity in your old age”. Not if you are a WASPI woman, and not if you are a couple where only one of you is over pensionable age, because a written statement on Monday showed that there would be a £7,000 pension cut for the poorest elderly couples. I called on the Prime Minister to come to the House and correct the record.
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Parliament rejects the Government’s Brexit deal
- 15/01/2019
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
After a month of delay, Parliament finally had a chance to vote on the Government’s deeply flawed Brexit deal. Labour voted against this deal because it does not protect jobs, workplace rights or environmental standards; does not ensure frictionless trade for UK businesses and provides no certainty about our future relationship with the EU. The Government’s own economic analysis shows this deal will make the country poorer – with GDP falling by around 3.9% and every region of the UK being worse off.
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Valerie attends House staff farewell event
- 10/01/2019
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
I was delighted to attend Les Stockwell (pictured left) and Noel Kirby’s (right) farewell event in Parliament on Thursday 10 January 2019.