On the 26th June the ‘High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill’ will be voted on in the House of Commons. Michael Fabricant says: “This is not the main HS2 legislation which will be a major Bill of several hundred pages and which I cannot support in its present form when it is heard in Parliament for […]
Michael Fabricant has welcomed changes made on Thursday 6th June in how planning is granted to where future wind farms will be located. “Over the last few years, a number of inappropriate applications have been made to site either a giant windmill or extensive windfarms near Lichfield. One in particular, near Curborough, would have been […]
New rights giving park home residents the protection they need from unscrupulous site owners come into force this week and this has been welcomed by Michael Fabricant. “While I am not aware of any problems on any park homes in my constituency at present, there were some major issues a few years back when I […]
Michael Fabricant visited Netherstowe School in Lichfield on Friday 10th May to see students practicing their heartstart techniques on specialised dummies. “I am a keen advocate of all schools training their students in first aid and coronary pulmonary resuscitation – CPR. To restart a heart is a real life saver. I am delighted that Netherstowe […]
Michael Fabricant spoke in the House of Commons in response to the Queen’s Speech on the Opening of Parliament last night (9th May) but while welcoming much of the Coalition’s legislation, he slammed the ‘execution’ of HS2 and in particular it’s route through ‘rural England’. Intervening earlier in the debate on Cheryl Gillan (the MP […]
Michael Fabricant has today submitted his response to the Government’s consultation on its Exceptional Hardship Scheme. “This is a compensation package for people who need to move home before the statutory compensation package is in place, but whose homes are blighted by HS2” Michael says. The response is attached. “I have also asked that owners […]
Speaking to a packed hall of residents at the Kings Bromley Cricket Club on Friday 19th April, Michael Fabricant made his views known clearer than he has ever done before. “I cannot support HS2 as it is currently planned” Michael said “and if I cannot change it, I will have to try and stop it. […]
The number of unemployed claimants in Lichfield constituency in March 2013 was 1,276. This represents a rate of 2.8% of the economically active population aged 16 to 64, the 521st highest of the 650 UK constituencies. (1st = highest rate of unemployment, 650th = lowest rate of unemployment.) Michael Fabricant says: “The number of claimants […]
Michael Fabricant says: “Official Government figures have revealed that households across Lichfield District, Birmingham, and elsewhere in the West Midlands will benefit from a real terms cut in their council tax bills – and this is great news! This is thanks to the third year of the Conservative’s council tax freeze initiative, which offers funding […]
“I am no supporter of HS2 as it carves a devastating route through Staffordshire” says Michael Fabricant “but when I heard that UKIP are claiming that HS2 is being constructed under orders from Brussels as a consequence of the TEN-T directive, I just had to check this out as it just didn’t ring true. We […]