Press Releases
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Valerie Vaz MP meets with representatives of Network Rail, WMCA and presented a petition in Parliament on Bescot Stadium Station
- 02/11/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: Press Releases
No CommentsI am meeting with Network Rail Central Route Director Denise Wetton, and representatives from the West Midlands Combined Authority together with campaigners from Walsall FC Trust on Friday 3 November at 1:30 pm at Bescot Stadium Station to discuss disabled access to enable people to access the Station. I presented a petition in the House
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Valerie Vaz MP highlights unclaimed savings from Child Trust Funds
- 01/11/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: Press Releases
I welcome the report from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) which uncovered that billions of pounds are sitting in the Child Trust Fund (CTF) accounts of millions of young people aged 12 to 20, young people born between 1 September 2002 and 2 January 2011, who have not claimed the money saved
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Valerie Vaz MP raises concerns about the CQC Report on Manor Hospital
- 27/09/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: Press Releases
I am concerned that the latest CQC inspection report, published on 15 September 2023, continues to rate the Manor Hospital as ‘Requires Improvement’ following a Section 29a Warning Notice issued in October 2022 regarding the safe management of medicines. The Inspection on 20 June 2023 focused on the medicine core services and the report states
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Valerie Vaz MP urges Government to invest in local communities
- 21/03/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: Press Releases
During the Budget Debate on 21 March 2023 I raised the lack of support for local authorities which is affecting our communities. In the Budget there were no measures to invest in people. In Conservative controlled Walsall, we have an abandoned town hall with no one there. The former police station on Green Lane is
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Valerie Vaz MP visits Old Church Primary for World Book Day 2023
- 06/03/2023
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: Press Releases
I visited Old Church C of E Primary on Friday 3 March to present the school with the books which I collected from the Publishers Association and we placed them in the School Library which is a wonderful converted Bus. On World Book Day every child in Walsall South is given a £1 book token
