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Following news of 122 redundancies at Caparo Atlas Works at Heath Road in Darlaston on 30 October 2015, I arranged an urgent meeting with the Administrators, Price Waterhouse Cooper (PWC) on site.
An Urgent Question was granted by Mr Speaker, Rt Hon John Bercow to Rt Hon Keith Vaz MP, Chair Home Affairs Select Committee on 9 November 2015 on errors made by the Government in calculating the Police Funding Formula.
On Thursday 4 November 2015 I applied to Mr Speaker Berco for an Urgent Question in the House of Commons about the upcoming elections in Burma which Mr Speaker granted.
On Thursday 5 November 2015, I was drawn at No 3 at Questions for the Church Commissioners. I asked:
I attended the Big Bang fair on the 5 November 2015 hosted by the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee in celebration of engineers week.
As a member of the Panel of Chairs, I chaired two debates on Wednesday 4 November 2015 in Westminster Hall, the Wanless Review and the Dickens file and the Regulation of Care homes.
On Tuesday 3 November 2015 I attended a National Pro Bono week event to highlight pro bono work undertaken by the legal profession. Pro bono legal services are not, nor can they ever be, a substitute for a properly funded system of legal aid. However for those who are not eligible for for the public
I have voted on three occasions in the last two weeks against the Government’s plans to cut Tax Credits for nearly 5,000 families in Walsall South.