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  • Visit to Rivers Primary Academy

    • 28/02/2025
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
    • Category: Local News, News
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    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
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    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
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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
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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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