Commenting on the Defence Secretary’s Statement to the House of Commons today on the Defence Training Review, Michael Fabricant says: "While I am bitterly disappointed that training will be withdrawn from Cosford, I am reassured that Des Browne has stated that there are no immediate plans to close the site and that a military presence […]
At the end of last year, Michael Fabricant wrote to the property developer of the Birmingham Road site in Lichfield expressing concern about the final appearance of the shopping centre. "I told them that the choice of materials would be crucial and that a brick facing, for example, would be far more in keeping with […]
When Michael Fabricant visited Rugeley Power Station on a blustery Friday 15th December, Station Manager David Leich showed Michael the new 600 foot chimney being constructed which will release ‘clean gases’ after they have been through the new flue gas desulphurisation plant currently being constructed. The completion date for the project is summer 2008 and […]
Michael Fabricant says "The Government’s plans announced today to close 2,500 Post Offices across the country, on top of the 4,000 already shut since 1999, are alarming. In the Lichfield Parliamentary Constituency there were 22 post offices back in 1999 which were reduced down to 19 by 2005. Pro rata, a further 2,500 closures could […]
In a hard hitting speech in the House of Commons yesterday (Tuesday 5th December), Michael Fabricant attacked Ambulance chiefs who have withdrawn drugs and equipment from Staffordshire Ambulances and Community First Responders. The full speech can be found here www.michael.fabricant.mp.co.uk/ith-0076.ihtml
Michael Fabricant says: "Residential park homes are an increasingly popular choice of quality affordable housing – and people living in park homes in Staffordshire are now being given even greater protection under the law." Michael’s comments follow visits to the Lower Lodge Mobile Home Park in Rugeley Road, Armitage and after he took part in […]
Michael Fabricant is telling the developers of the Birmingham Road Shopping Development, English Heritage, and the Government’s Department of Communities and Local Government that "a Brindley Place or Jewellery Quarter style of development is far more in keeping with the City of Lichfield than some inappropriate concrete space like the Bullring." Michael Fabricant adds: "Most […]
Michael Fabricant has just been granted a 90 Minute Debate on the Staffordshire Ambulance Service by the Speaker of the House of Commons to commence at 11am on Tuesday 5th December. The Debate is entitled: ‘Equipment and Medicine available to the Staffordshire Ambulance Service’. "In this debate I intend to expose the web of deception […]
At a Meeting of Executive Council of the reconstituted Lichfield Conservative Association (to include Barton under Needwood which at the next General Election will form a part of the Lichfield Parliamentary Constituency), Michael was unanimously adopted as the prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the next election. The Meeting was held on the evening of Friday 24th […]
Michael Fabricant says that "some local retailers and coffee shops are taking unfair advantage of customers wanting to buy fair trade goods. Fair trade coffee is little more expensive than ordinary coffee yet some coffee shops in Lichfield and elsewhere are charging as much as 10p more a cup when the actual cost is little […]