Valerie Vaz.

Valerie Vaz made her most significant parliamentary move on 20 June 2025, voting against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at Third Reading — one of four rebel votes she cast against her party on that Bill on the same day. She backed amendments to tighten eligibility criteria and procedural safeguards but ultimately opposed the Bill passing the Commons altogether. Otherwise she votes with Labour 97.7% of the time, making assisted dying the clear exception to a near-uniform voting record. Beyond Westminster, she has been vocal on a local heritage battle: publicly opposing Walsall Council's plan to relocate the Walsall Leather Museum, securing Grade II listed status for the building, and demanding ministerial scrutiny of what she called poor use of public funds.

At 72% participation — below the Commons average — she is an active but not prolific contributor. Her 143 contributions across 49 debates skew toward economy and jobs, local government, health, and social care. Her stance profile shows strong alignment with progressive taxation (100%) and public ownership (78%), alongside notable reluctance on parliamentary scrutiny (5%) and Lords scrutiny (0%). Compared with the Labour average, she votes markedly more often in favour of NHS funding (+26 percentage points) and end-of-life autonomy (+22 points), but significantly less often on armed forces welfare (-40 points) and veterans' issues (-25 points).

She sits on the Panel of Chairs, a procedural role that places her in the chair for Public Bill Committees rather than scrutinising policy directly. Local news coverage is high in volume — 71 articles over 90 days — but most do not mention her by name; her standout coverage concerns the Leather Museum campaign. Voting data and speech records are available; news sentiment data is limited by low MP-specific coverage across most local issues.