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Child Trust Funds: Public Accounts Committee Report
- 01/11/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
No CommentsThe Public Accounts Committee published a report on 23 July 2023 which uncovered that billions of pounds are sitting in the Child Trust Fund (CTF) accounts of millions of young people aged 12 to 20, young people born between 1 September 2002 and 2 January 2011, who have not claimed the money saved in their
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Valerie appears on BBC Politics Midlands
- 29/10/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
I was one of the guests on BBC Politics Midlands on Sunday, 29 October 2023, with the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) Mayor, Andy Street, and the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), Simon Foster, presented by Rob Mayor. The topics of discussion were scrapping of the second leg of HS2, changes to the West Midlands
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Walsall Black Sisters AGM
- 27/10/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
I attended the Walsall Black Sisters Collective AGM on Friday, 27 October, at Bethel Lighthouse on Caldmore Road. The AGM celebrated the achievements and progress of the Walsall Black Sisters Collective over the past 12 months, and the Chair shared the exciting plans for the forthcoming year. We listened to stories from the Windrush generation
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Open letter to the PM to ban trophy hunting imports
- 26/10/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
I have signed the open letter to the Prime Minister, urging the Government to enact the 2019 Government’s manifesto commitment to ban trophy hunting imports. The letter coordinated by Henry Smith, MP for Crawley, and signed by 64 MPs and Peers is set out below:
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Petition to keep DVLA services at Post Offices
- 25/10/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
I presented a petition in the House on Wednesday, 25 October 2023 about the change in DVLA services that can be found at Post Offices. I said: “This is a petition of the residents of the United Kingdom who are concerned that post offices will no longer provide customers with access to Driver and Vehicle