In a letter to Michael Fabricant, Health Minister Yvette Cooper has refused point blank to meet with the Lichfield Hospitals Comforts Fund Committee who had requested to meet her to discuss the services at the Victoria Hospital whose future has been under review for around 3 years. Ms Cooper says in her letter "A meeting […]
Michael Fabricant has condemned the Government following the report by accountants Deloitte & Touche published today on farm incomes which states that farm profits are at their lowest since the company began its survey 11 years ago. The annual income for a typical 500 acre family farm has fallen to just £8000 or £160 per […]
Michael Fabricant says "Tony Blair and Jack Straw have played the ‘race card’, not William Hague", responding to comments made about William Hague’s recent statements on the fight against crime following the tragic murder of Damilola Taylor, in Peckham. "If you read William Hague’s article, rather than just the headlines surrounding it, he was saying […]
Answers just in to Parliamentary Questions tabled by Michael Fabricant offer some Christmas cheer to the future of Maternity Services in Lichfield. Following the meeting on the 29th November at the House of Commons between Dr Gerbo Huisman, Pam Beale (of the National Childbirth Trust), and midwives and Michael Fabricant, Mr Fabricant tabled two Parliamentary […]
Figures just released by the House of Commons for the Parliamentary Session (year) which ended on the 30th November reveal that Michael Fabricant was once again the most active MP in the West Midlands during Parliamentary Question Time. Either by catching the Speaker’s eye or by being listed on the Order Paper, he spoke 54 […]
Michael Fabricant asked the Rt Hon Margaret Beckett MP, Leader of the House of Commons, today for an urgent debate on crisis management by the Government. He told her during Business Questions in the House of Commons "In the summer the Prime Minister intervened during the fuel crisis and called a summit at Number 10. […]
Late last night, Michael Fabricant spoke about the lack of police numbers in Staffordshire and the threat facing the future of the Victoria Hospital in Lichfield in the debate on the Queen’s Speech in Parliament. He said that the speech, written for the Queen by 10 Downing Street, was all spin and no delivery designed […]
Michael Fabricant has backed the findings of Lichfield’s Expert Maternity Working Group which is calling for the preservation of maternity services in Lichfield. But Mr Fabricant argues "The local Health Authority has all the information it needs now from its so-called ‘informal’ consultation to make a decision to save the Victoria Hospital’s Maternity Unit. The […]
Michael Fabricant is concerned that as more and more rail passengers take to the roads, road traffic accidents and fatalities may far exceed any that might arise on trains. According to the DETR, you are 12 times more likely to die in a road traffic accident than on the trains for every mile travelled. Mr […]
In the latest move to shake up the NHS by the Government, the South East Staffordshire Community Health Council now faces its abolition. Michael Fabricant has pledged to fight against the odds to keep it in place. CHCs are independent of the NHS and were set up to represent the interests of patients and their […]