On Tuesday 15 May 2012, at Justice Oral Questions, Valerie Vaz, MP for Walsall South, asked the Justice Minister, Crispin Blunt MP, about the performance of the outsourced court interpreters, Applied Language Solutions (ALS).

On 13 May 2012 Valerie was a guest on the BBC Sunday Politics West Midlands Show.  Topics for discussion included the continued closure of Stafford Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department at night, the closure of rural banks in the UK and the recent public sector pension strikes.

Valerie has nominated Golden Moments on Ablewell Street to represent Walsall South in the Tiffin Cup 2012 South Asian Restaurant Competition.

Following the recommendations of the Health Select Committee – of which Valerie is a member – the Government has taken action to make the NHS complaints system more transparent.

On Monday 30 April 2012, Valerie voted against the Bill  to suspend Sunday Trading  for 8 weeks during  the Olympic Games.

On 26 April 2012 Valerie spoke in support of young physicians at the British Physics Olympiad event at the Royal Society in London. The event precedes the International Physics Olympiad, an annual global physics competition in which British students have a great record of achievement. Britain will be sending 6 representatives to the event this

Valerie has today published her report on ‘Obesity and Diabetes Programmes in England: Capturing the State of Play in July 2011’. The report gives an overview of the status of obesity and diabetes and related programmes in England, using data collected through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests sent to Primary Care Trusts Clusters in July