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. […]
Despite physiotherapy staff requesting the inclusion of a hydrotherapy pool – and even offering to raise the money to pay for it themselves – it has not been included in the business plan for Lichfield’s new hospital. And constituents trying to find out for themselves about developments with the new hospital are unable to do […]
Following concerns expressed last year, since denied by the Government after being contacted by Michael Fabricant, that Whittington Barracks may be used for asylum seekers, Michael Fabricant is now calling for radical changes to the asylum system to deliver a safer and fairer system in the interests of the genuine refugee and of the British […]
Lichfield and Burntwood 5th and 6th formers will be debating "That this House believes that A levels have had their day and should be replaced by an alternative examination system" in the annual Michael Fabricant MP-Arthur Price of England Schools Speaking Competition which commences in the Guildhall, Lichfield on Friday 7th February at 7.30pm. The […]
In Parliamentary Questions to the Transport Secretary in the Chamber of the House of Commons today (Tuesday 28th January), Michael Fabricant told Roads Minister John Spellar that while the new M6 Toll Motorway (due to open early 2004) would relieve the Birmingham M6 bottleneck and provide improved road connections from the south east of England […]