Michael Fabricant told the Prime Minister earlier today (Wednesday 13th September) that the Commonwealth Games would be “excellent news for the economy not only in Birmingham but in the greater west midlands, including Lichfield”. He asked her to support the bid and “bat for Britain”. Michael Fabricant Q8. When she next plans to meet the […]

Lichfield resident, former Mayor, and long-standing member of the Lichfield Society of Artists, Doris English, was guest of honour at the Society’s awards made in the Friary in Lichfield on Saturday 9th September. Awards handed out included ‘The Michael Fabricant Cup for Best Landscape Painting’ and this year it was won by the Society’s Chair: […]

Michael Fabricant got to hold one of the new polymer £10 notes at a meeting with the Bank of England today (19th July 2017) in advance of their being made available to the public. “The new plastic £10 note is a little larger than the new £5 note, but 15% smaller than the existing paper […]

The Parliamentary Bill for HS2 Phase 2a authorising the high speed rail link between Lichfield and Crewe was published yesterday. Michael Fabricant and Cheryl Gillan (the Conservative MP for Amersham) joined Ed Miliband MP mid-afternoon in demanding an oral statement from the Transport Secretary. This duly took place at 10pm last night (17th July). This […]

In a Statement to the House of Commons yesterday (17th July), the Education Secretary, Justine Greening, said that no schools will lose out as a result of the new funding formula. Michael Fabricant says “Staffordshire has lost out over the last 30 years or more receiving less money per pupil than most other counties. This […]

Michael Fabricant met with Network Rail and London Midland today (Friday 14 July) to see first-hand how the railway in his constituency is run and maintained. Michael was taken on track where he saw Network Rail’s orange army repair a track fault just outside Lichfield Trent Valley station before visiting the nearby signal box where […]

Michael Fabricant tackled Schools Minister in the House of Commons Chamber today (4th July) on the new ‘Fairer Funding Formula’. Michael asked: “My right hon. Friend will recall, probably with gloom, my question to him two or three weeks before the general election, but, as Arnie Schwarzenegger would say, “I’m back”, and I want to […]