In a heated debate in the House of Commons late tonight on the Health and Social Care Bill, Michael Fabricant told health ministers that they were throwing out the baby with the bath water by abolishing independent Community Health Councils which protect the interests of patients against malpractice by the NHS. "The South East Staffordshire […]
* Michael Fabricant has written to Prime Minister Tony Blair today at the request of Cllr John Brooks (Labour’s Education Leader on Staffordshire County Council) asking that he meet with parents who will plea for fair funding for Staffordshire’s school children. While the national rise in education funding was 4.8% to cover teachers’ pay rises, […]
At 3.30pm on Tuesday 6th February, Michael Fabricant’s "Analysis of Cost and Benefits (European Union) Bill" gained House of Commons support and received its official first reading. He told the House: "This Bill is all about knowledge: whether we benefit on balance from our membership of the European Union or whether our membership costs this […]
Under Labour’s building targets, the countryside to the north of Lichfield must accept 5,000 new buildings in the next few years. Nearly all will have to be built on the countryside permanently scarring the County. Michael Fabricant says: "A Conservative Government will abolish Staffordshire’s building targets within the first few weeks of taking office. "If […]
In yesterday’s debate in the House of Commons on manufacturing (overshadowedby the resignation of Peter Mandelson from the Government), MichaelFabricant told the House of Commons that manufacturing is now in crisis."Since the Government has been in power, 350,000 jobs have been lost inmanufacturing and financial burdens placed on businesses through directivesand stealth taxes which have […]
Last year Secretary of State Alan Millburn announced a £65 million boost to attract and keep nurses, midwives, health visitors and related professionals in the NHS. But it has now been revealed that out of 99 health authorities, only 31 will benefit and that excludes North and South Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, […]
In his pre-budget statement in the House of Commons on November 8th, Gordon Brown said he had asked the European Commission for permission to reduce the VAT on church repairs from 17½% to 5%. "I welcomed this", says Michael Fabricant, "as I am conscious that churches in our area can ill afford maintenance and repairs […]
At 3.30pm this afternoon (Monday 22nd January), Michael Fabricant will introduce his Analysis of Costs and Benefits (Nafta Membership) Bill in the House of Commons. It will receive its First Reading without debate. "Now that we have a new US Administration and the US International Trade Commission (a Federal Agency) has published its favourable report […]
Michael Fabricant is joining with Caroline Spelman (the Member of Parliament for Meriden) to co-sponsor a Bill which will reverse the decline in the number of adoptions in this country. Michael Fabricant says "We must reverse a situation in which the number of children adopted is a quarter of what it was twenty years ago. […]
In a letter to Michael Fabricant, Health Minister Yvette Cooper has refused point blank to meet with the Lichfield Hospitals Comforts Fund Committee who had requested to meet her to discuss the services at the Victoria Hospital whose future has been under review for around 3 years. Ms Cooper says in her letter "A meeting […]