Valerie Vaz’s work in Parliament - West Midlands Labour Party

Valerie Vaz MP in Parliament

Business of the House

Commons debates

The Leader of the House read out the business for next week, but that is not really next week’s business, is it, since she will come back to the House with some emergency business motions?...

Business of the House

Commons debates

Will the Leader of the House please give us the forthcoming business?

Brexit: Statutory Instruments

Leader of the House

Valerie Vaz received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Leader of the House, how many Statutory Instruments in relation to the UK leaving the EU deprioritised by the Government and will not be approved by Parliament in advance of 29 March 2019.

Brexit: Statutory Instruments

Leader of the House

Valerie Vaz received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Leader of the House, if she will publish the criteria the Government is using to deprioritise Statutory Instruments relating to the UK leaving the EU.

Brexit: Statutory Instruments

Leader of the House

Valerie Vaz received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Leader of the House, whether the Government has plans to publish the titles of the Statutory Instruments in relation to the UK leaving the EU that have been deprioritised by the...

Exiting the European Union (Food and Agriculture)

Commons debates

Not that long ago.

Business of the House

Valerie Vaz made a speech in the House of Commons

I do not know what to say to that, other than that it feels like a wash-up and that we should be getting ready for a general election. I was going to ask for an Opposition day. With the...

Business of the House

Valerie Vaz made a speech in the House of Commons

Will the Leader of the House give us the forthcoming business?

Business of the House

Commons debates

Yet again the House has been given an emergency motion, and yet again we have only just had sight of it—a colleague has managed to get us copies of it. This is no way to run a Government...

Business of the House

Commons debates

I thank the Leader of the House for that, but I am astonished at this business statement. We still have no idea on this, despite the Prime Minister setting out the next steps. We have had a vote...

Business of the House

Commons debates

I thank the Leader of the House for the very short business for next week and her very long speech on various other matters. I thought this was business questions. I am absolutely staggered to...

Business of the House

Commons debates

Will the Leader of the House please give us the forthcoming business?

Business of the House

Commons debates

I thank the Leader of the House for announcing the business for next week, but I am surprised that she did so for only one week. The Prime Minister practically told us what will happen in the...

Business of the House

Commons debates

Will the Leader of the House please give us the forthcoming business?

Department for Exiting the European Union: Staff

Department for Exiting the European Union

Valerie Vaz received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many official in his Department have been transferred to the Cabinet Office since the creation of his Department.

Department for Exiting the European Union: Staff

Department for Exiting the European Union

Valerie Vaz received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many officials in his Department have been transferred (a) out of and (b) into his Department from each Government Department...

Business of the House

Speaker’S Statement

Valerie Vaz made a speech in the House of Commons

I think it’s a nice tie—it is one of the better ones anyway. Paul also said to be cheeky to the Speaker. In the foreword, the late Tony Banks said that Paul Flynn was “one of...

Business of the House

Speaker’S Statement

Valerie Vaz made a speech in the House of Commons

I thank the Leader of the House for the business statement for next week. I note that she has provided the Backbench Business Committee with two days of debates, and both subjects are very...

Business of the House

Speaker’S Statement

Valerie Vaz made a speech in the House of Commons

Will the Leader of the House give us the forthcoming business?

Business of the House

Commons debates

My hon. Friend is doing a lot of chuntering, but I want to wish him well. He had an important day earlier this week, and my hon. Friend the Member for Hackney South and Shoreditch (Meg Hillier),...