Thank you for visiting my website. You will find information about my work and activities as the Member of Parliament on behalf of the people of Walsall and Bloxwich. You can contact me directly through the website and find details about my office and how to meet me at surgeries. I use the Parliamentary answering service when my office is busy or out of hours. Please leave your message with them and remember to give your name, address and contact details. The answering service will send me an email with your message.
If you have any problem or issue you think I may be able to help you with, please do get in touch.
About Walsall and Bloxwich
Do you live in the constituency? Follow the link below to check that Valerie is your MP.
Press Releases
Keep updated with the latest news locally, media coverage and news from Parliament.
On Tuesday 12 November 2024 I attended a reception held by Lush to raise awareness of the issue of animal testing in the cosmetics industry.
I was pleased to meet and spoke to Hilary Jones (pictured), Global Ethics Director at Lush, who spoke to me about the issues and the Lush Prize.
As well as leading the
It was a pleasure to meet the author Richard Osman at the Publishers' Association Winter Gathering at the Terrace Pavilion on Tuesday 12 November 2024.
As Co-Chair of the APPG on Publishing, we heard from our other chair Baroness Gail Rebuck who stressed the importance of reading. There is a worrying decline in children's reading. We
On Tuesday 12 November 2024, I attended the Licensing and Commissioning service of The Reverend Mark Birch as Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons.
This historic role involves providing pastoral care for MPs, peers, and staff, and assisting the Speaker in leading key events in the parliamentary calendar, such as the opening of
My wreath was laid on my behalf by Albert J Hodgkins at the Bloxwich Memorial on Sunday 10 November 2024. At the Cenotaph in Walsall Town Centre.
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)
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 of
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