Reacting to the shock announcement that the Healthcare Commission are to conduct an Inquiry into the Staffordshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Michael Fabricant says: "This is an odd turn of events. Did the Chairman and Acting Chief Executive of the Staffordshire Ambulance Service know of the launch of this inquiry before they announced the return […]
Michael Fabricant has guardedly welcomed the announcement made today by the Staffordshire Ambulance Service that some of the drugs and equipment withdrawn from service from Community First Responders will be restored. But Michael Fabricant says: "This is a helpful step in the right direction, but life saving equipment like ResQPOD which increases blood oxygen in […]
In his formal response to the West Midlands Regional Assembly Report on the ‘Regional Spatial Strategy’ which determines the house building programme for Staffordshire and the rest of the west midlands, Michael Fabricant has said a resounding ‘No’ to the construction of 16,000 new homes in Lichfield District. In his response to the Regional Assembly, […]
Commenting on the Defence Secretary’s Statement to the House of Commons today on the Defence Training Review, Michael Fabricant says: "While I am bitterly disappointed that training will be withdrawn from Cosford, I am reassured that Des Browne has stated that there are no immediate plans to close the site and that a military presence […]
At the end of last year, Michael Fabricant wrote to the property developer of the Birmingham Road site in Lichfield expressing concern about the final appearance of the shopping centre. "I told them that the choice of materials would be crucial and that a brick facing, for example, would be far more in keeping with […]
When Michael Fabricant visited Rugeley Power Station on a blustery Friday 15th December, Station Manager David Leich showed Michael the new 600 foot chimney being constructed which will release ‘clean gases’ after they have been through the new flue gas desulphurisation plant currently being constructed. The completion date for the project is summer 2008 and […]
Michael Fabricant says "The Government’s plans announced today to close 2,500 Post Offices across the country, on top of the 4,000 already shut since 1999, are alarming. In the Lichfield Parliamentary Constituency there were 22 post offices back in 1999 which were reduced down to 19 by 2005. Pro rata, a further 2,500 closures could […]
In a hard hitting speech in the House of Commons yesterday (Tuesday 5th December), Michael Fabricant attacked Ambulance chiefs who have withdrawn drugs and equipment from Staffordshire Ambulances and Community First Responders. The full speech can be found here www.michael.fabricant.mp.co.uk/ith-0076.ihtml
Michael Fabricant says: "Residential park homes are an increasingly popular choice of quality affordable housing – and people living in park homes in Staffordshire are now being given even greater protection under the law." Michael’s comments follow visits to the Lower Lodge Mobile Home Park in Rugeley Road, Armitage and after he took part in […]
Michael Fabricant is telling the developers of the Birmingham Road Shopping Development, English Heritage, and the Government’s Department of Communities and Local Government that "a Brindley Place or Jewellery Quarter style of development is far more in keeping with the City of Lichfield than some inappropriate concrete space like the Bullring." Michael Fabricant adds: "Most […]