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  • Press Release: Valerie Urges Diligent Scrutiny Over Leather Museum Relocation Plans

    • 14/10/2025
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: Local News, Press Releases
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    Walsall Council Cabinet’s decision on 24 September 2025 to close Walsall Leather Museum has outraged everyone interested in heritage. This decision was called in, to be reviewed on 14 October 2025. Diligent scrutiny should expose the lack of transparency of the decision and push the Council to preserve heritage and create opportunities for the future.

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  • Statement on the Global Sumud Flotilla

    • 04/10/2025
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: Local News, News
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    The Global Sumud Flotilla which was on a humanitarian mission to Gaza to provide Aid was intercepted on 2 October 2025 with activists including my constituent Sijaad Hussain on board.  I was contacted by the family of my constituent Mr Sijaad Hussain on 2 October 2025 when the boat  “All In” was intercepted and soon

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  • Valerie visits Gurdwara in Caldmore

    • 24/09/2025
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: Local News, News
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    I visited the Guru Nanak Gurdwara in Caldmore on Sunday 14 September 2025 to speak to the Trustees and I was also able to speak to the congregation following the horrific attack on a young Sikh woman who was subjected to racial abuse by 2 men who sexually assaulted her. This young woman was on

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  • Valerie Chairs Public Committee on English Devolution and Community Empowerment

    • 16/09/2025
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: Local News
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    I chaired an evidence session of the Public Bill Committee of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill on 16 September 2025 from 2pm-5.30pm.  This Bill reforms local government in England and gives communities the right to shape their local areas. It will also restore the supplementary vote system for mayoral elections in England, and

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  • Valerie intervenes in Adjournment Debate on Accessibility at Railway stations

    • 09/09/2025
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: Local News, News
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    On 9 September 2025 I attended and intervened in a debate secured by Helen Hayes MP’s adjournment debate on the accessibility of railway stations.   I made the following intervention: “she mentioned a list of stations in her constituency,  I would like to mention Bescot Stadium station in my constituency. Does she agree that if a

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