Following a number of requests from Staffordshire headteachers as to what the Government’s recent announcement on school funding allocations means for local schools, Michael Fabricant is seeking clarification from the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott. "Staffordshire primary and secondary schools have received far less money per pupil in the past than those in other counties", […]

The need for broadband access in Burntwood and rural areas of the West Midlands were discussed today (Tuesday 17th December) in the Committee hearings of the Communications Bill currently being scrutinised in Parliament. Michael Fabricant backed an amendment to clause 61 of the Bill that would have made broadband accessibility universal by law. However, a […]

Following the publication by the Government of this year’s local government funding settlement, Michael Fabricant says "New figures revealed in a Parliamentary Answer show that Lichfield District Council is getting a raw deal on funding from the Government and this is pushing up council tax. "Only 60.4 per cent of Lichfield District Council’s needs were […]

Michael Fabricant put in a plea for Burntwood businessmen last night (Tuesday 3rd December) in a speech he gave in Parliament on the new Communications Bill. Michael told Secretary of State Tessa Jowell that the Communications Bill needs to address the unfairness by which broadband internet connections are available in some parts of the UK […]

"The Licensing Bill just introduced by the Government could – if unamended – spell the death knell to the Lichfield Festival and other arts events in the West Midlands centred on cathedrals and churches", says Michael Fabricant. In the House of Commons yesterday, he raised it with Robin Cook the Leader of the House and […]

"That this House believes that A levels have had their day and should be replaced by an alternative examination system" is the subject of February’s Michael Fabricant MP-Arthur Price of England Schools Speaking Competition being held in the Guildhall, Bore Street in Lichfield on the evening of Friday 7th February 2003. The competition is open […]

The following Parliamentary Written Answer from the Minister for the Armed Forces has been received by Michael Fabricant following accusations of rape and bullying at the Whittington Barracks. Michael Fabricant: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the investigation of allegations of (a) rape and (b) bullying […]

Michael Fabricant has welcomed the findings of the Parliamentary Boundary Review for Staffordshire which totally rejected the Labour Party’s proposals to transfer Whittington out of the Lichfield constituency and move Shenstone, Stonnall, and Little Aston out of the Labour held Tamworth constituency and into Lichfield. The Boundary Commission says with regards to Whittington: "There were […]

Michael Fabricant will be questioning the new Transport Minister, Alistair Darling, following a letter he has received from Railtrack stating that with Railtrack being placed into Administration – by the now disgraced former minister, Stephen Byers – it is impossible "to confirm when works might begin" to upgrade Lichfield Trent Valley Railway station. This is […]

A series of accusations of rape and bullying have been made against officers and men serving at the Army Training Regiment at Whittington Barracks near Lichfield. Michael Fabricant says: "These accusations are distressing and very serious. No-one has yet written to me concerning this, but as the Member of Parliament for the constituency in which […]