Broadband could soon be available to around 90% of Michael Fabricant’s Lichfield Parliamentary constituency if new BT trigger levels are reached. Michael says: "This is great news. I know of many local firms providing goods and services worldwide through the use of broadband websites. And many private users are rapidly discovering the advantages of a […]
Michael Fabricant has expressed deep alarm that local councils, including both Staffordshire County Council and Lichfield District Council, have been hit with a new Whitehall directive which could increase council taxes or force existing services to be cut. And it is the nature of the directive which so infuriates Michael. The Treasury and Office of […]
This weekend (12th and 13th July), Michael Fabricant will be spending time with the police. On Saturday night from 9pm he joins PC Dean Cooper to patrol the busy streets of central Lichfield. "With the change in Licensing Laws which permits all night drinking, I want to see the effects for myself that this might […]
Michael Fabricant visited teachers and children this afternoon at Willows Primary School in north Lichfield. He met children, headteacher Duncan Birds, and Mrs Dawn Izon who is Literacy Coordinator and Year 6 Teacher. His visit was to talk to the children of Year 6 about his life as an MP and take questions. After speaking […]
Yesterday, Monday 30th June, saw Parliamentary Questions to the Department of Culture Media and Sport. It also saw Estelle Morris’ return to the front bench for the first time since she resigned as Secretary of State for Education. Michael Fabricant took the opportunity to welcome Estelle back and to publicise the Secretary of State’s visit […]
Over 170 cyclists took part in the Lichfield Three Spires Cycle Ride which was started by Michael Fabricant at 9am in bright sunshine in the Market Square, Lichfield on Sunday (29th June). The ride, organised by the Birmingham Branch of the British Heart Foundation attracted cyclists form near and far: one couple came up from […]
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 […]