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  • Parking on Poppyfields Estate

    • 15/02/2025
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: Local News
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    I visited the Poppyfields Estate on 15 February 2025 to follow up my previous visit on 7 February 2025 with the Police and Crime Commissioner and Chief Superintendent where we discussed the parking on Match Days.  Residents told me about supporters and  fans parking on double yellow lines and across access kerbs on the Estate.

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  • Leather Museum Under Threat

    • 15/02/2025
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: Local News, News
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    The community in Walsall were outraged to learn that the Council planned to relocate the Leather Museum. This information was in the Council’s Budget for 2025-2029. This decision was approved at a Cabinet meeting on 16 October 2024, apparently in contrast to a Cabinet meeting on 17 July 2024 which approved a plan to ‘continue

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  • Westminster Book Awards 2025

    • 14/02/2025
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: News
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    On 12 February 2025  as Co Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Publishing, I opened the proceedings and you can read my full speech below: So lets go straight to the winners announced by Matt Chorley: The three categories are: Best Fiction or Non-Fiction by a Parliamentarian: The winner is  Alan Johnson for

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  • An evening with Welsh National Opera

    • 14/02/2025
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: News
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    An excellent recital was held at No 11 Downing Street on Thursday 13 February 2025 by kind permission of the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP the Chancellor.  The setting was one of the rooms at No 11 where we heard from Soprano Natalya Romaniw, violinists, David Adams Kitty Cheung, Viola players Dunia Ershova and Barry

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  • Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill: Second Reading

    • 10/02/2025
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: News
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    On 10 February 2025 the House of Commons debated the 2nd Reading of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill. The Border Security and Asylum Minister, Dame Angela Eagle DBE highlighted in November that, during the first half of 2024, small boat crossings reached their highest point on record, with over 200,000 cases stuck in

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