I raised the chaos of the Government's flagship policy on universal credit which is causing real hurt to people. We now have the intervention of two former Prime Ministers. Half of all lone parents and two thirds of couples with children stand to lose £200 each month.  That is what the Secretary of State for Work

I attended the welcome of  soldiers who have bravely served the UK. The All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces invited 120 soldiers who have recently returned from operation overseas to march into Parliament on Wednesday 10 October 2018.

I was delighted, as a member of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), to meet with a delegation from the Ghana legislature on Wednesday 10 October 2018.

I attended the Midland Indian Association fundraiser for the Kerala flood relief on Saturday 6 October 2018 at Lower Forster Street in Walsall

Valerie visits Accord Group with Jeremy Corbyn

I attended a public exhibition of Orders at the Holiday Inn by Junction 10 on Friday 28 September 2018. Highways England and Walsall MBC are partnering together for a joint venture to promote a scheme of alteration works to Junction 10 of the M6.

I was delighted to meet with Chinese for Labour in Liverpool on Sunday 23 September 2018. I support the thriving Chinese community in Walsall South. 30.7% of Walsall South is of Asian ethnicity. 

I am pleased that the planning application to move the statue of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst from outside Parliament to Regent’s University has been withdrawn. Out of the 236 comments on the plan, 232 objected to it.