Michael Fabricant quizzed the Secretary of State for Defence, Geoff Hoon, on the future of the Staffordshire Regiment in the Commons Chamber yesterday afternoon (29th November) and received no clear answer. "This uncertainty cannot be doing much for the morale of soldiers in the Staffordshire Regiment" says Michael Fabricant. "As long as their future remains […]
Michael Fabricant says Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) are no substitute for more police officers. "While I welcome the five police community support officers heading for the Trent Valley Division, they are better than nothing, let’s not kid ourselves. They have no powers of arrest and are no substitute for regular police officers. It is […]
"As most people in Lichfield, Burntwood and throughout the midlands will tell you, it’s hard to find an NHS dentist nowadays. I am already receiving many letters from constituents about this", says Michael Fabricant. "And today (25th November), a report by the National Audit Office has warned that Tony Blair’s plans to reform dentistry in […]
Michael Fabricant has welcomed the announcement in the Queen’s Speech that there will be tougher laws to control animal rights extremists. “This fulfils the promise made to me a few weeks back by David Blunkett, the Home Secretary” explains Michael. “The legislation will forbid the harassment of two or more people employed by or supplying […]
Michael Fabricant has congratulated Lichfield City Council on their ‘Quality Status’ award by the Government. He says: "Lichfield once again shows that it is leading the way. The District Council has won national acclaim for its recycling of waste policy and for the unique ‘green’ design of the Lichfield Garrick Theatre, and now the City […]
Shadow Economic Affairs Minister, Michael Fabricant, has expressed concern that falling house prices revealed by the survey published today by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors may herald an onset of widespread negative equity by overstretched home owners. "With property prices in Lichfield booming and being some of the highest in the country outside London, […]
With the International Monetary Fund estimating that the late Yasser Arafat could have been holding funds over £500,000,000 in various accounts around the world and US Intelligence putting this figure as high as $5 billion, Michael Fabricant has tabled urgent parliamentary questions today (Friday) to Gordon Brown and Hillary Benn, the Secretary of State for […]
Burntwood based manufacturing company, Delta Process Systems Ltd, was visited by Lichfield Member of Parliament, Michael Fabricant, on Friday last (5th November). Mr Fabricant, a well known champion of British technology and the manufacturing industry and Shadow Minister for Industry and Technology, met Delta’s managing director, Dave Meller and commercial manager Bob Hughes, who described […]
Michael Fabricant says: "It’s a fact that too many restaurant owners still don’t know that it is legal for guide dogs to be admitted with their blind or partially sighted owners. "A recent survey showed more than half of guide dog owners have been turned away by a service provider such as a restaurant, pub, […]
Michael Fabricant has been re-elected Joint Chairman of the Royal Marines All-Party Parliamentary Group by MPs and lords from all political parties. Immediately after the election, Major General Jim Dutton CBE who is the Commandant General of the Corps addressed the meeting. He outlined the exercises and operations of the Royal Marines over the past […]