Following a visit to the St Giles Hospice on Friday (1st November) and a meeting with Dr Robert Horton (the Chairman) and Peter Holliday (Hospice Director), Michael Fabricant is calling on the government to provide additional funding to support the growth of charity hospices – and to improve the time it takes for that funding […]
Michael Fabricant today (Sunday 3rd November) opened the Woodland Wildflower Project at the Pipe Hill Farm Woodland Plantation, Abnalls Lane in Lichfield. Opening the event he said "It is not just the wild flowers, the flora, we are re-establishing here today, but the fauna too. Dormice, beetles, and butterflies will return here as they once […]
While supporting moves to make Parliament more relevant and topical last night (Tuesday 29th October 2002) in the debate on Parliamentary reform, Michael Fabricant condemned moves to close the House of Commons early in the evening as a "Charter for the lazy MP". Michael Fabricant says: "The primary rôle of Parliament is to call the […]
Customs and Excise have finally backed down over VAT claims against the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas near Lichfield. This has resulted in a tax saving to the charity of £100,000. "This was the very worst form of stealth tax" says Michael Fabricant. "Customs and Excise were claiming that donations of trees by war widows […]
At a meeting last Friday afternoon (18th October 2002) with directors of the M6 Toll Road due to open in January 2004, Michael Fabricant suggested – among other things – that local car drivers should be given a major discount for use of the road. Mr Fabricant told Tom Fanning (Managing Director of Midland Expressway […]
At last night’s (Tuesday 15th October) crucial debate in the House of Commons on local government finance, Michael Fabricant asked Nick Raynsford MP, the Minister for local government, "Will the Minister give an assurance that counties such as Staffordshire will be no worse off than they are at present – and believe me, they are […]
With the news this morning (Wednesday 9th October) that the Government has decided to abandon plans for 140mph train service to operate on the West Coast Mainline and that the launch of the 125mph trains service is to be delayed by at least 2 more years, Michael Fabricant will be contacting Railtrack to ascertain what […]
Peter Ainsworth MP is not unpatriotic in opposing a war with Iraq. (Spectator 14.9.2 ‘I dare to dissent’). Nor is he an apologist for the vile Saddam Hussein and his regime. He is right to say that war cannot be justified because of ‘unfinished business’ left over from the Gulf War. Peter is brave to […]
Following a meeting with Paul Everitt, Artistic Director of The Garrick Theatre currently being constructed in Lichfield, Michael Fabricant will be approaching the new management at the Royal Shakespeare Company to suggest that The Garrick be their temporary home during the proposed reconstruction of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford upon Avon. "The Garrick will […]
The following statement on a possible armed conflict with Iraq was issued by Michael Fabricant today (12th September 2002):- There is little point in learning history if we do not learn lessons from history. In the 1930s Britain and France did nothing while Germany re-armed, brutalised its citizens, and marched into neighbouring countries. Well intentioned […]