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 […]
Michael Fabricant has condemned the Government following the report by accountants Deloitte & Touche published today on farm incomes which states that farm profits are at their lowest since the company began its survey 11 years ago. The annual income for a typical 500 acre family farm has fallen to just £8000 or £160 per […]
Michael Fabricant says "Tony Blair and Jack Straw have played the ‘race card’, not William Hague", responding to comments made about William Hague’s recent statements on the fight against crime following the tragic murder of Damilola Taylor, in Peckham. "If you read William Hague’s article, rather than just the headlines surrounding it, he was saying […]
Answers just in to Parliamentary Questions tabled by Michael Fabricant offer some Christmas cheer to the future of Maternity Services in Lichfield. Following the meeting on the 29th November at the House of Commons between Dr Gerbo Huisman, Pam Beale (of the National Childbirth Trust), and midwives and Michael Fabricant, Mr Fabricant tabled two Parliamentary […]
Figures just released by the House of Commons for the Parliamentary Session (year) which ended on the 30th November reveal that Michael Fabricant was once again the most active MP in the West Midlands during Parliamentary Question Time. Either by catching the Speaker’s eye or by being listed on the Order Paper, he spoke 54 […]
Michael Fabricant asked the Rt Hon Margaret Beckett MP, Leader of the House of Commons, today for an urgent debate on crisis management by the Government. He told her during Business Questions in the House of Commons "In the summer the Prime Minister intervened during the fuel crisis and called a summit at Number 10. […]
Late last night, Michael Fabricant spoke about the lack of police numbers in Staffordshire and the threat facing the future of the Victoria Hospital in Lichfield in the debate on the Queen’s Speech in Parliament. He said that the speech, written for the Queen by 10 Downing Street, was all spin and no delivery designed […]