News
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Valerie presents books to Rivers Primary School Library
- 03/03/2025
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: Local News, News
No CommentsAs Chair of the APPG on Publishing and in the week of World Book Day, I was able to present some books to Rivers Primary on my visit on 28 February 2025. The School have invested in a great space for their Library and consulted the children who wanted a campfire so in the centre
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Feburary eNews
- 03/03/2025
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
Here you can read the eNews for February 2025
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Visit to Rivers Primary Academy
- 28/02/2025
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: Local News, News
By a happy coincidence, I had arranged to visit Rivers Primary Academy which is in partnership with Goldsmith Primary Academy and run by the Windsor Trust on Friday 28 February 2025. And on 24 February 2025 the Government announced the schools who would be named as early adopters of the Breakfast clubs. Rivers and Goldsmith
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Valerie Chairs Delegated Legislation Committee on Flood Re-insurance
- 26/02/2025
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
On Wednesday 26 February 2025, I chaired the Delegated Legislation Committee, which considered the draft Flood Reinsurance (Amendment) Regulations 2025. The motion was moved by Emma Hardy, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. This statutory instrument allows for an increase to a levy placed on UK household insurance providers, from £135
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Leather Museum Under Threat
- 15/02/2025
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: Local News, News
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