Michael Fabricant has expressed his delight at news that retired miners have won a long standing battle with their pension fund. Michael met retired miners from Burntwood and Cannock in his Burntwood constituency back on 30th January 2004 when at first other MPs in the immediate area refused to meet up with them. See http://www.michael.fabricant.mp.co.uk/news-00376.ihtml […]
Following new information given to Michael Fabricant, he has condemned the decision to remove ResQPOD equipment from Staffordshire Ambulances and says that new information puts the lie to claims that they have been removed on clinical grounds. "This political decision has nothing to do with clinical considerations and is becoming a national disgrace. "Having had […]
Following Michael Fabricant’s address on Sunday 23rd July at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas near Lichfield to Chief Constables throughout the UK at the annual service of remembrance for police offices killed in the line of duty, Home Office Minister Tony McNulty has written to Mr Fabricant to confirm that there is no national […]
"The poor old council tax payer will now have to stump up the cost of the failed national police mergers which the Government was trying to force and which included the merger between Staffordshire Police and the West Midlands" says Michael Fabricant who resolutely opposed Staffordshire being "swallowed up" into a regional west midlands service. […]
Derek Twigg MP, Minister at the Department of Transport, has now written back to Michael Fabricant and confirmed that the number of high speed direct Pendolino services between Lichfield Trent Valley and London Euston will be reduced from December 2008. As confirmed by the Minister’s earlier letter to Mr Fabricant, there will be similar service […]
A statement issued by the NHS in London this week that the Staffordshire Ambulance Service has been ‘fiddling its figures’ and that its performance is ‘not as good as it has claimed’ is "completely unfounded" says Michael Fabricant. "I have now just learned that the error identified by the NHS was less than one half […]
Following reports today (16th August) that Anthony Marsh, the new Chief Executive of the West Midlands Ambulance Service, has said that the forced merger of the Staffordshire Ambulance Service could be completed by the end of this year, Michael Fabricant has vowed he will initiate an emergency Parliamentary debate on the subject once Parliament returns […]
Michael Fabricant has joined forces with the Association of British Drivers to urge caution over the Government’s announcement today (Tuesday 8th August) to lower speed limits in the UK. "Although increased speeds generally result increased road deaths and injuries, lowering speed limits can cause crashes too" says Michael Fabricant. "Staffordshire County Council and other Highway […]
Reports reaching Michael Fabricant say that as from today (8th August), Clinical Governance has in effect passed from the management of the Staffordshire Ambulance Service to that of the West Midlands. Worryingly, Staffordshire Ambulance crews are reported to have been told they may no longer use their ‘resQpod’ units which when giving Coronary-Pulmonary Resuscitation enhances […]
A leaked memo from the Department of Health, signed by a senior civil servant on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health, makes it clear that steps are already underway to absorb the Staffordshire Ambulance Service into the ‘inferior’ West Midlands Service. "Using the powers of the 1999 Health Act, the Chief Executive of […]