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Valerie meets students at Walsall College
- 28/01/2011
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: Local News, News
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Today, Valerie Vaz MP visited Walsall College where she met students and staff. Valerie was keen to speak with students from Walsall Collge as she had presented a petition against the abolition of the Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA) signed by hundreds of them to Parliament on 19th January. This was immediately after the House of Commons debate on EMA.
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Holocaust Memorial Day
- 27/01/2011
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
On Thursday 27th January, Valerie pledged her commitment to Holocaust Memorial Day by signing a Book of Commitment in the House of Commons to honour those who lost their lives in the Holocaust.
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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- 25/01/2011
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: Local News, News
On Tuesday 25th January, Valerie Vaz MP attended an event in Parliament to raise awareness of the deadly threat of Carbon Monoxide Poisioning. New research from the Carbon Monoxide – Be Alarmed! campaign shows that 68% of households in the West Midlands could be at risk of poisoning by not having an audible Carbon Monoxide alarm.
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Health Committee publishes Commissioning report
- 20/01/2011
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
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Young Scientist of the Year
- 19/01/2011
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
Valerie takes a keen interest in the status of science in education and funding for science at our universities, herself being a science graduate with a degree in Biochemisty. Therefore she was pleased to meet BBC Young Scientist of the Year Tom Hearing who was at the House of Commons during filming for a BBC science programme due to be broadcast in March.