Results 161–180 of 2301 for speaker:Valerie Vaz

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Eating Disorders: Walsall South (18 Oct 2022)

Valerie Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help support young people with eating disorders in Walsall South constituency.

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Breast Cancer: Walsall South (18 Oct 2022)

Valerie Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help increase the uptake of breast cancer screening in Walsall South constituency.

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Dental Services: Walsall South (18 Oct 2022)

Valerie Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help improve access to NHS dental services in Walsall South constituency.

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Dental Services: Walsall South (18 Oct 2022)

Valerie Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the NHS dentist provision in Walsall South constituency.

Justice: Criminal Barristers: Return to Work (18 Oct 2022)

Valerie Vaz: The Secretary of State mentions solicitors, so can he say why solicitors have received only a 9% increase in fees, prompting the Law Society to say that they may not undertake criminal defence work?

Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Energy Bills Rebate (17 Oct 2022)

Valerie Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether people who live in charitable accommodation and pay their rent through an all-inclusive service charge will receive the £400 payment under the Energy Bills Support Scheme (a) directly or (b) through the charity that operates the scheme.

Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (13 Oct 2022)

Valerie Vaz: It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Kevin Hollinrake), and I will pay tribute to him later. It is hard to be here on a Thursday without thinking of the late David Amess and remembering how he always used to come into business questions with a smile on his face. It has been a year, but it does not feel like a year; it has gone so quickly. We remember both David...

Written Answers — Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Football Governance Fan-led Review (13 Oct 2022)

Valerie Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Government response to the Fan-Led Review of Football Governance, published on 25 April 2022, CP 658, when she plans to (a) publish the white paper on reforming football governance and (b) introduce an independent regulator.

Mahsa Amini (11 Oct 2022)

Valerie Vaz: Brave young women are being beaten to death just for wanting to be women and to conserve their human rights. We also have British citizens, Morad Tahbaz and Mehran Raoof, who are still incarcerated in Iran. What are the British Government going to do to release them?

Treasury: Research and Development (11 Oct 2022)

Valerie Vaz: The Minister needs to be much more specific about the Horizon Europe programme. Is he aware that the Nobel laureate Sir Andre Geim has said that top academics are leaving the country in despair because the Government are not negotiating on Horizon Europe? When will the Government do something—now?

Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Small Businesses: Costs (28 Sep 2022)

Valerie Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what support his Department is offering to (a) high energy usage small business and (b) small convenience stores in the context of the rising cost of energy.

Shale Gas Extraction (22 Sep 2022)

Valerie Vaz: I wonder whether the Secretary of State would placate the luddites and publish the up-to-date evidence that enabled the Government to U-turn on both their manifesto commitment and the previous Prime Minister’s policy.

Tributes to Her Late Majesty The Queen ( 9 Sep 2022)

Valerie Vaz: It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for the loyal constituency of Newark (Robert Jenrick). It falls to our generation to tell of the passing of our gracious sovereign, and the passing of a platinum Elizabethan age. As a young woman, she had responsibility thrust on her, without a manual. She wrote her own story, and in doing so, wrote the story of our nation—a story through...

Jagtar Singh Johal ( 7 Sep 2022)

Valerie Vaz: Can I just tell the Minister that there is a separation of powers, but it is our job to hold him to account—we ask him questions—and it is for judges to decide on the case? If they are civil proceedings, they are in open court, so everybody can go along and hear the case. I have a very simple question. Mr Jagtar Singh Johal is a British citizen. Has he received consular assistance, and if...

Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Workplace Pensions ( 7 Sep 2022)

Valerie Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support for pension tracing she is providing to people who are (a) about to retire and (b) unaware of the details of the employers they have worked for the purposes of ensuring that they have access to their full pension entitlement.

Sewage Pollution ( 6 Sep 2022)

Valerie Vaz: That is clearly not enough. This is a public health issue. Will the Minister consider making it a strict liability offence to dump sewage anywhere and give the Environment Agency more immediate powers, such as cease and desist, because clearly it is being ignored?

Written Answers — Department for Education: Pupils: Assessments (21 Jul 2022)

Valerie Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the premature online publication of the AQA A-level Chemistry Paper 2 in June 2022, what steps he is taking to ensure the integrity of examinations and fairness for pupils.

Written Answers — Treasury: Fuels: Excise Duties and VAT (15 Jul 2022)

Valerie Vaz: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of (a) lowering the rate of VAT on motor fuel for low paid workers and (b) abolishing fuel duty.

Points of Order (13 Jul 2022)

Valerie Vaz: On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. It relates to hon. Members visiting my constituency. Could you please advise me on how I should deal with a breach of protocol, in that I was informed by two hon. Members, the hon. Members for Walsall North (Eddie Hughes) and for Aldridge-Brownhills (Wendy Morton), that they would be visiting my constituency within a few hours of their visits? I have...

Sri Lanka (13 Jul 2022)

Valerie Vaz: There is a large diaspora of Sri Lankan people who live here and who are desperately worried about their family back in Sri Lanka. The Minister has made no mention of the Prime Minister’s involvement. At the end of this urgent question, will she ask the Prime Minister to pick up the phone to the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and ask him to stop firing at innocent people?


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