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Press Release: Council Planning Committee Meeting
- 31/01/2025
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: Press Releases
No CommentsPRESS INFORMATION – 31 January 2025 – For Immediate Release RT HON VALERIE VAZ MP RAISES ISSUES OF TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN PLANNING DECISIONS I have written to the Chief Executive of Walsall MBC and the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) after the Planning Committee granted planning permission for the
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Valerie Chairs Finance Bill Committee
- 30/01/2025
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: Local News, News
I chaired two sessions of the Finance Bill Committee on Thursday 30 January 2025. There were 2 sessions and I chaired both the sessions. The House of Commons appoints Public Bill committees to consider and scrutinise proposed legislation in detail, line by line. The Finance Bill puts into force the resolutions put forward in the
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Valerie Commemorates Mahatma Gandhi on Martyrs’ Day
- 30/01/2025
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: Local News, News
On 30 January 1948 Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated. This day is also known as Martyrs’ Day, ‘Shaheed Diwas’ or ‘Sarvodaya Day’ and is observed across India to honour those who sacrificed their lives for the nation. I laid a wreath at Gandhiji’s statue in Parliament Square with HE Vikram Doraiswami the High Commissioner for India and
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 – For a Better Future
- 27/01/2025
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
Holocaust Memorial Day is the international day on 27 January to commemorate the Holocaust – the murder of 6 million Jews. Millions more people were murdered through the Nazi persecution of non-Jewish groups such as those with disabilities and Roma. It is marked in thousands of communities across the country, with the UK Ceremony as the
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Deposit Scheme for Drinks Containers (England and Northern Ireland) Regulations 2024
- 21/01/2025
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: Local News, News
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) states that an estimated 12 billion plastic drinks bottles and 14 billion metal drinks cans are used in the UK every year. A key environmental protection scheme was debated on 21 January 2025, approving the Deposit Scheme for Drinks Containers (England and Northern Ireland) Regulations 2024.