Michael Fabricant has been appointed Shadow Minister for Trade and Industry. Michael says "I am delighted and honoured to have been asked to serve on the front bench team in a role which reflects my former career before I became a Member of Parliament. It was manufacturing that put the ‘Great’ into Britain yet it […]
Michael Fabricant met with senior executives of the HomeZone housing association yesterday afternoon (Friday 27th June) at their headquarters in Lichfield to discuss the £14 million retirement village planned for the City. Chief Executive of HomeZone, Andrew Robinson, unveiled the plans for the £14 million project to Michael Fabricant and explained that it will be […]
The Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport, Tessa Jowell MP, will be visiting Lichfield on Tuesday 1st July following her promise to do so when Michael Fabricant invited her during a Committee hearing when she was a witness some months back. She will be visiting the new Lichfield Garrick and the Cathedral in […]
Following Michael Fabricant’s hurried series of meetings with American film bosses, Stephen Norris, Commissioner of the UK Film Council based in London, has now contacted Michael to set up a meeting with himself and Krysia Rozanska, Chief Executive of Screen West Midlands to discuss how best to promote Lichfield as a location for overseas film […]
In a wide ranging speech on the European Union yesterday (18th June), Michael Fabricant told the Foreign Secretary that some analyses have said that taking everything into account, the cost of Britain’s membership of the EU is "equivalent to £500 for each man woman and child in this country or equivalent to almost doubling the […]
"Following careful consideration, the Deputy Prime Minister has decided that the current level of interest in holding a referendum on elected regional assemblies in the West Midlands region is low. ‘I have therefore not directed the Boundary Committee to carry out a local government review there at the moment – a necessary precursor to referendums.’" […]
Michael Fabricant awarded certificates to adult Scout volunteers at the Annual General Meeting of the Lichfield District Council held last night (Friday 13th June) in the Guildhall, Lichfield. Also attending the Meeting was the Lichfield District Commissioner, Jeremy Cotton, who will shortly be leaving the District to become the Staffordshire Scout County Commissioner. The evening […]
Michael Fabricant today expressed concern that the departure of Alan Milburn as Health Minister may slow down much needed reforms in the NHS – particularly in the West Midlands. Michael Fabricant says: "Whatever differences I and my Conservative colleagues had on the detail of running the NHS, I was pleased that Alan Milburn recognised that […]
Michael Fabricant met in Lichfield this afternoon (Friday 13th June) with Nick Brown (Managing Director) and Nigel Pennington (Director, West Midlands Services) of Central Trains Limited to discuss the level of service between the two Lichfield stations and Birmingham. Mr Fabricant has received a number of complaints from constituents concerning trains which stopped short of […]
Michael Fabricant has urged Hollywood studio bosses to consider Lichfield as "a typically English location for film makers". Last week, Labour MP the Rt Hon Gerald Kaufman, Chairman of the House Select Committee on Culture Media and Sport, lead a delegation of MPs to Los Angeles to meet film studio management as part of an […]