Rt Hon Valerie Vaz, MP for Walsall and Bloxwich
Valerie Vaz has been an MP since 2010. Currently: Panel of Chairs.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (Office of the Leader of the House of Commons) | 2016 to 2021 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Panel of Chairs | 2024 to now | Now |
| Panel of Chairs | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Finance (No. 2) Bill | 2023 | |
| Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) (No. 2) Bill | 2023 | |
| Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Bill | 2023 | |
| UK Infrastructure Bank Bill [Lords] | 2022 | |
| Shark Fins Bill | 2022 | |
| Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL] | 2022 |
Show the other 13
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Audit Committee | 2022 | |
| Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill | 2021 | |
| Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority | 2020 to 2021 | |
| Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority | 2017 to 2019 | |
| House of Commons Commission | 2016 to 2021 | |
| Members Estimate Committee | 2016 to 2021 | |
| Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee | 2016 | |
| Draft Investigatory Powers Bill (Joint Committee) | 2015 | |
| Science and Technology Committee (Commons) | 2015 to 2016 | |
| Panel of Chairs | 2015 to 2016 | |
| House of Commons Governance Committee | 2014 | |
| Regulatory Reform | 2010 to 2015 | |
| Health and Social Care Committee | 2010 to 2015 |
Countries of interest
Political Interests
Source: UK Parliament Members API · Parliament’s own page
Declared interests
MPs must publish certain paid work, gifts, donations and other interests. This is a record of what they declared, not a suggestion that anything is wrong.
Valerie Vaz has 2 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous | Solicitor (not practising) | – |
| Family members employed | Paul Townsend employed | – |
Source: Register of Members’ Financial Interests · Parliament’s own page
Questions
MPs can ask ministers questions in writing. The questions show what an MP is working on, which votes cannot.
Valerie Vaz asked 34 written questions in the last 12 months.
Who they asked
Latest questions
Source: Written Questions API · Updated 4 Oct 2026
Expenses
MPs claim back money for running an office and working in two places. An independent body, IPSA, publishes every claim. This is what was paid in 2025-26.
50 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.
Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data
Election result and area
Valerie Vaz represents Walsall and Bloxwich. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Labour
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Valerie Vaz won with 34% of the votes, and Aftab Nawaz (Independent) came second with 20%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valerie Vaz | Labour | 12,514 | 33.6% |
| Aftab Nawaz | Independent | 7,600 | 20.4% |
| Elaine Williams | Reform UK | 7,293 | 19.6% |
| Shannon Lloyd | Conservative | 6,679 | 18.0% |
| Sadat Hussain | Green Party | 2,288 | 6.2% |
| Patrick Stillman | Liberal Democrat | 817 | 2.2% |
2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.
Your area at a glance
Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.
How they vote
In the last 12 months Valerie Vaz took part in 223 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Valerie Vaz voted the same way as their party in 221 of the 221 votes where parties gave instructions (100%), and went the other way in 0.
What does this mean?
Parties tell their MPs how to vote. Most MPs usually follow that. A high or low count says nothing on its own about whether an MP is good or bad, and we do not rank MPs by it. We only count votes where parties gave instructions, not free votes. How we count it
Recent votes
| Date | Vote | They voted | Compared with party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep | End of life for terminally ill adults: the first main vote | Against | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | Against | Free vote |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: the final vote | For | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Dec 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Jan 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Feb 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Mar 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Apr 26 | 100% | 100% |
| May 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jun 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jul 26 | 100% | 99% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 100% |
Source: Commons Votes API
This page states what the record shows. It does not say why an MP voted as they did. How we calculate this