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The Skills and Post-16 Education Bill seeks to reform these areas of education. Measures include allowing Employer Representative Bodies for an area to create Local Skills Improvement Plans. On Monday 21 February 2022 I voted on the Bill at Report Stage.
The existing Accident and Emergency Department at Walsall Manor Hospital is not large enough for the expected growth in patient numbers in the coming years, over 10,000 extra patients a year. Pressures have been added to by the closure of Stafford hospital. On Friday, 11 February 2022, I visited the new A&E department being constructed
Applications to build 57 luxury homes on the Green Belt at Great Barr Hall and Park and a HMO at a former care home on Slaney Road were both rejected by Walsall Council Planning Committee on Thursday 10 February 2022.
I have signed a letter to the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs calling on the Government to meet its commitments on distributing COVID-19 vaccines worldwide. The letter was written after a debate I attended in Westminster Hall on 13 January 2022.
The Environmental Audit Committee's meeting on 9 February focused on how the UK's economic goals can be aligned with environmental sustainability. Panellists included Nick Spencer of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, Signe Norberg of the Aldersgate Group and Jeremy Peat OBE of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
The Government is introducing a register of beneficial ownership for trusts through its Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Regulations 2022, a long overdue and necessary step in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing in the UK. However, the Government seek to extend the deadline for updating the register after a change of circumstances
Residents have been given just a week’s notice that plans submitted in 2020 for a 37-bedroom HMO on Slaney Road will be decided on this Thursday, 10 February. On 8 February 2022 I wrote to the Chief Executive of Walsall Council and the Planning Services department to object on behalf of my constituents. My letter
An application was heard by the Walsall Council Planning Committee on Thursday 10 February for a development for a wedding/conference centre and 57 new properties on the site of Great Barr Hall and Park. On Monday 7 February 2022 I wrote to the Chief Executive of Walsall Council and the Planning Services department to object