Following calls from Michael Fabricant (see the News Release dated 11th February ), the Speaker of the House of Commons has stepped in to prevent a deterioration of standards in the Commons chamber by providing all MPs with an updated list of parliamentary "conventions and courtesies". Michael Martin, who has watched with growing dismay regular […]
Twenty five MPs from 18 Commonwealth Parliaments including Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria, India, South Africa, and Malaysia will be meeting Michael Fabricant at the George Hotel in Lichfield on the 8th March to hear about the work of a British MP in his constituency. The visitors are in the United Kingdom for 10 days under […]
Following the Government’s decision to allow train operators to reduce their services "in order to improve the reliability of their timetables" according to Transport Secretary, Alistair Darling, angry Lichfield commuters have contacted Michael Fabricant telling him that the reduced service between Lichfield and Birmingham remains as unreliable as ever. A furious Michael Fabricant has now […]
"A combination of the national economic slow down and John Prescott’s decision to denude the midlands and the north from housing money and siphon it down to benefit the south of England means that local councils have suddenly found that their cash income has been slashed by millions of pounds", says Michael Fabricant. "Lichfield District […]
Plans to provide broadband digital internet services in Burntwood moved one step closer today when BT announced that ‘public interest thresholds’ for the broadband service would be lowered in Burntwood from 650 down to 350. 220 people in Burntwood have already registered their interest in using such a service. "If just 130 more people in […]
MPs are to be given a guide to House of Commons etiquette after a series of lapses of parliamentary p’s and q’s following a point of order raised by Michael Fabricant to the Speaker in the House of Commons yesterday. The Speaker, Michael Martin, said he would issue a new guide to MPs after concerns […]
The Winning Team: Chase Terrace Technology College ‘From out of the ashes there rose a phoenix’ exclaimed one of the competitors and Chase Terrace Technology College won the Michael Fabricant MP – Arthur Price of England Schools Speaking Competition 2003 in the Guildhall, Lichfield last night (7th February). The Best Individual Speech Award was won […]
Michael Fabricant, a member of the Parliamentary Select Committee scrutinising the work of the Department of Culture Media & Sport, says that "pubs in Lichfield and elsewhere with a strong ‘live music’ tradition face financial ruin with a new Government music stealth tax." Michael explains: "The Licensing Bill currently progressing through Parliament contains measures which […]
Draft plans being published today for the future European Union to be run "on a federal basis" are unacceptable and "would cost the British taxpayer billions and drain local services of resources" says Michael Fabricant. "Services are already overstretched in the West Midlands. We are still awaiting Government funding for the new hospital promised for […]
Following Michael Fabricant’s proposals to control dogs’ mess in Britain [see the news release of the 14th January],Michael is now turning his attention to the protection of dogs in Spain. He and fellow Conservative MP, Andrew Rossindell, have tabled a Parliamentary Motion calling for an end to the barbaric practice in Spain of hanging dogs. […]