Walsall and Bloxwich.

All five of Valerie Vaz's rebel votes fell on a single day -- 20 June 2025 -- when she repeatedly broke with the Labour majority on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. She backed amendments designed to prevent voluntary stopping of eating and drinking from being used to meet the bill's terminal illness threshold, and supported procedural moves her party rejected. Her voting profile on end-of-life autonomy (67%, against a party average of 45%) suggests this is a genuine policy position rather than isolated dissent. Closer to home, she has been publicly challenging Walsall Council over its planned relocation of the Leather Museum, calling it poor value for taxpayers, pursuing Grade II listed status for the building, and requesting ministerial oversight -- coverage that has made her one of the more visible voices on a contested local heritage issue.

Her parliamentary participation sits at 70%, slightly below the Commons average, and she votes with Labour 97.5% of the time -- a reliable party-line MP outside the assisted dying debate. Her speech activity is substantial: 142 contributions across 48 debates, with the economy, local government, community and culture, and health and social care dominating. She votes notably more often in favour of NHS funding and welfare expansion than the average Labour MP, and less often in line with positions characterised as pro-business or tough on crime.

One gap stands out: her alignment with armed forces welfare votes is 0%, against a party average of roughly half -- a consistent deviation with no obvious public explanation. She sits on the Panel of Chairs, a procedural committee role rather than a scrutiny brief. Most local news in the past 90 days covers crime and council matters without mentioning her directly; the Leather Museum campaign is the clearest recent evidence of active constituency work.