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  • Poppies field

    • 09/11/2024
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: Local News, News
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    I planted a Remembrance Day Cross in Speaker’s Garden of Remembrance for Walsall & Bloxwich. Each MP plants a cross to remember all those who fought and died for us. ( Photographs by Amy Wang) 

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  • Peace Tree

    • 08/11/2024
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: News
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    There was a gathering around the Peace Tree, The Green, Blakenall Heath on Friday 8 November 2024 . The Mayor of Walsall Cllr Anthony Harris attended.  Also present was Mike Brice CEO New Horizons and PC Bradburn and former councillor for Blakenall, Ian Robertson. The tree was first planted in 1919 to commemorate the ending

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  • Budget Resolution Votes

    • 06/11/2024
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: News, Uncategorized
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    On 6 November 2024, the House met to vote on budget resolutions. At the end of the final day of the Budget debate, the House is asked to agree the Budget resolutions. These are also known as ways and means resolutions. The resolutions are specific proposals for taxation and allow the House to legislate for

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  • Valerie Chairs Delegated Legislation Committee on the Movement of Pet Animals

    • 06/11/2024
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: News
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    On Wednesday 6 November 2024 I chaired the seventh delegated legislation committee, which considered the Non-Commercial Movement of Pet Animals. The draft Windsor Framework (Non-Commercial Movement of Pet Animals) Regulations 2024 simplifies pet travel between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, introducing a free lifelong travel document for pets and eliminating certain health treatments previously required.

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  • 25 Years celebration of The Reading Agency

    • 06/11/2024
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
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    It was a packed Terrace Pavilion on Wednesday 6 November 2024 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Summer reading Challenge. The Summer Reading Challenge is an important intervention which reaches 700,000 children every year helping them to enjoy reading. We heard Alex Wharton Children’s Laureate for Wales who managed to get the whole pavilion

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