Valerie Vaz
Labour Walsall and Bloxwich
Voting record
Based on 9 recorded Commons divisions at Second or Third Reading of bills tracked by Hear, Hear — not a full voting record. “Didn’t vote” means Parliament has no vote recorded for them in that division (absent, abstained, paired, or excused). See the All votes tab below for every division.
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Every Commons division on file for Valerie Vaz — amendments, motions and opposition-day votes as well as bills. Took part in 1,821 of 2,376 (77%).
Covers 9 Mar 2016 to 11 Sep 2026 — Parliament’s votes data doesn’t go back further. “No vote recorded” is Parliament’s own list of members with nothing recorded for that division: it can mean absent, deliberately abstaining, paired, or excused, and the data doesn’t say which. Click a division title for Parliament’s own page for it.
Government & opposition roles
Valerie Vaz doesn’t currently hold a government or shadow front-bench post, but has in the past. See Government for who else currently holds one.
Declared financial interests
From Parliament’s Register of Members’ Financial Interests — Parliament’s official register for Valerie Vaz →. Topic tags below are our own automated, best-effort keyword match, not Parliament’s classification.
Solicitor (not practising)
Name: Paul Townsend
Relationship: Spouse
Role: Senior Parliamentary Assistant
Working pattern: Full time
(Updated 5 January 2017)
Written questions to government
No written questions on file for Valerie Vaz yet — this only covers what Hear, Hear has fetched so far (see Written questions), not necessarily every question Valerie Vaz has ever tabled.
Business costs (IPSA)
£234,643.50 paid out to or for Valerie Vaz across 173 claims — combining every financial year on file, not just the current one — covering office costs, accommodation, travel, and bought-in/temporary staffing. This does not include Valerie Vaz’s permanent staff’s salaries — typically the biggest single share of an MP’s real costs — which IPSA only publishes once a year, after the year closes, as one aggregate figure, never as individual claims. Some categories (especially travel) are reported by IPSA as one whole-year total rather than itemised by date — marked “Aggregated” below. See MP expenses to filter this to a single year.
Early Day Motions
No Early Day Motions on file as tabled by Valerie Vaz — this only covers motions tabled within Hear, Hear’s current tracking window (see Early Day Motions), not necessarily Valerie Vaz’s full record.
All-Party Parliamentary Groups
Valerie Vaz is a listed officer of 3 All-Party Parliamentary Groups on file. See APPGs for the full register and the biggest funders overall.
Biggest declared funder across these groups: Publishers Association — about £5,250.50 across 1 group (All-Party Parliamentary Group on Publishing).
Read this carefully: funding is declared by the group (often to pay for a secretariat that runs it), not paid to Valerie Vaz personally, and declaring it is a legal requirement rather than a sign of wrongdoing. This only covers groups Valerie Vaz is a listed officer of — ordinary members aren’t published. Amounts are Parliament’s own figures; where it gave a banded range the midpoint is used, so totals are approximate. Funders are grouped by name, so the same organisation spelled very differently may appear twice.
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