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Walsall Black Sisters AGM
- 27/10/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
No CommentsI attended the Walsall Black Sisters Collective AGM on Friday, 27 October, at Bethel Lighthouse on Caldmore Road. The AGM celebrated the achievements and progress of the Walsall Black Sisters Collective over the past 12 months, and the Chair shared the exciting plans for the forthcoming year. We listened to stories from the Windrush generation
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Open letter to the PM to ban trophy hunting imports
- 26/10/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
I have signed the open letter to the Prime Minister, urging the Government to enact the 2019 Government’s manifesto commitment to ban trophy hunting imports. The letter coordinated by Henry Smith, MP for Crawley, and signed by 64 MPs and Peers is set out below:
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Petition to keep DVLA services at Post Offices
- 25/10/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
I presented a petition in the House on Wednesday, 25 October 2023 about the change in DVLA services that can be found at Post Offices. I said: “This is a petition of the residents of the United Kingdom who are concerned that post offices will no longer provide customers with access to Driver and Vehicle
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Meeting with Ambassadors from Palestine, Jordan and Qatar
- 25/10/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
On Wednesday 25 October 2023, the Palestinian Ambassador, Dr Husum Zomlot, briefed a cross party group of MPs, members of the British-Palestine APPG in Parliament. Dr Zomlot told the meeting of the difficulties the people were facing with a lack of food, water and fuel. He said people were being bombed as they queued for
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Town and Country Planning Regulations 2023 Committee
- 25/10/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
I was a member of the Draft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 Delegated Legislation Committee on Wednesday, 25 October 2023. I asked for clarification on how many responses the Government received to their consultation, as a percentage?” Rachel Maclean MP, the Minister of
