Michael Fabricant is encouraging Staffordshire’s High School students to enter a national Parliamentary Writing Competition. Entries have to be sent in by Friday 26th November. Last year, as part of the celebrations for its 200th anniversary, the Parliamentary Press Gallery inaugurated a writing competition for students, designed to complement citizenship lessons in schools and aimed […]

Michael Fabricant says that local planning authorities should not be deprived of their power to veto moves to close pay-phones. Michael Fabricant, MP for Lichfield and , the shadow minister for industry and telecommunications, has written to Stephen Carter, chief executive of Ofcom, BT’s regulator, to ensure that this veto is not removed. This follows […]

Michael Fabricant has welcomed the publication of an Ofsted report which would overturn Labour Government and Staffordshire Council policy to force children with special educational needs to be integrated in mainstream schools. "This has jeopardised the future of schools like Queen’s Croft in Lichfield and may force its merger with other special needs schools. A […]

Michael Fabricant has deplored the growing practice of dumping urban foxes in Wales. "With the growing problem of increasing numbers of foxes in our towns and cities, it seems that do-gooders are now transporting live urban foxes from the West Midlands and other conurbations and releasing them into rural Wales where it is thought they […]

Writing for Computer Weekly magazine this week, Shadow Minister for Industry and Technology, Michael Fabricant, set out in a few hundred words his vision for information communication technology in the coming years. He wrote:- Earlier this year, I attended a broadband conference where David Isenberg, one of the American founders of the internet, said of […]

At noon today, Saturday 2nd October, Michael Fabricant unveiled the new canal fingerpost at Huddlesford Junction near Lichfield. Amidst tooting of narrow boat horns in celebration, Michael said "This fingerpost points to Fradley and to Coventry. But the most important direction is to Ogley Junction: 6 miles, 7 furlongs and 30 locks away. At present […]

Michael Fabricant says "The Home Secretary must be living in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks the yob culture alive – and sadly well – in Birmingham and even Lichfield on a Friday and Saturday night will be stopped by community safety officers who have little training and no powers of arrest". This follows David […]

Following the Labour Party’s admission yesterday, following exposure by Michael Fabricant, that they have indeed registered 4 websites in the name of Michael Howard the Leader of the Opposition, Michael Fabricant today tabled Commons questions about the "bogus" websites and written to the Electoral Commission. See News Release of the 27th September Michael, who is […]

Commenting on the news that Sir Richard Branson is entering the space tourism market, Michael Fabricant says: "While I am pleased that it is a UK company entering the space tourism market, I hope that this does not distract Virgin and Sir Richard from his more down to earth transport responsibilities. In particular, Virgin Trains […]

Michael Fabricant accused the Labour Party today of preparing a "desperate dirty tricks campaign" after the discovery that the party has registered three websites in the name of Michael Howard, Leader of the Opposition. They are www.michaelhowardmp.org, www.michaelhowardmp.net and www.michaelhowardmp.org.uk. In each of these websites the registrant or "admin organiser" is given as "The Labour […]