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2021 July 23

  • Valerie signs Early Day Motion opposing cuts to the regional political monitoring of Parliament

    • 23/07/2021
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: News
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    I signed Early Day Motion (EDM) #314 following the announcement of plans to reduce the number of staff working in the BBC Regional Political Unit based at Millbank by over a third.  You can read the Early Day Motion in full below:  “That this House is deeply concerned by proposals to slash the number of staff

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  • Press release: Valerie Vaz MP Requests “Call-in” of Narrow Lane Transit Site Application

    • 23/07/2021
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: News, Press Releases
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    “I asked the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities & Local Government to “call-in” the application for a Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Transit Site at Narrow Lane before Walsall Council’s Planning Committee approved it at their meeting on Thursday 15 July 2021. This application will seriously undermine the Government’s national policy commitments, as well as

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