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As a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Music, I attended a meeting on Tuesday 19 October organised by UK Music to launch their latest report. The meeting was addressed by UK Music's Chief Executive Jamie Njoku-Goodwin.
Jamie for the presented the finding's of UK Music's report which looks at the devastating impact that
I showed my support on Tuesday 19 October 2021 for the Long Live the Local Campaign. Launched in 2018, the campaign raised awareness on July 6th 2021 to celebrate the important social, cultural and economic role pubs and breweries play in Britain, and to remind people that they cannot take them for granted. Britain's pubs
On Tuesday 19 October I asked the Minister for Health and Social Care to meet with me to discuss the downgrading of Walsall Manor Hospital. The Minister agreed to meet with me to further explore the downgrading of existing hospitals.
The nation was shocked to hear of the murder of my colleague Sir David Amess MP stabbed at his surgery on Friday 15 October 2021. Sir David was one of the kindest MPs and always stopped to ask how I was. In my role as Shadow Leader of the House I responded to the pre-recess
I was delighted to be asked to open the newly refurbished Nehemiah Court on 1st October 2021. Nehemiah Court is a complex of 34 flats that was first opened in 2002 by Sir Bill Morris. I was met by the Chief Executive Llewellyn Graham and the Chair, Bishop Wilton Powell.
Valerie said : I was absolutely delighted that Pleck Library is continuing as a Learning Centre in the heart of the community in Pleck. Now families will be able to use the excellent facility without having to travel. it is on their doorstep.
Bill Ellens (in the yellow T Shirt) has brought the community together to start up and maintain a Pocket Garden on Wolverhampton Street. On Saturday 18 September the group planted daffodils, lavender and there was Jasmine and Honeysuckle to grow up the fence.
Valerie has today, on Back British Farming Day, called for public bodies to buy more British food all year round - part of the campaign to buy, make and sell more across Britain. I am asking every public body to give more contracts to British firms including local businesses in and also asking the Government to pass legislation