Shadow Economic Affairs Minister, Michael Fabricant, has expressed concern that falling house prices revealed by the survey published today by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors may herald an onset of widespread negative equity by overstretched home owners. "With property prices in Lichfield booming and being some of the highest in the country outside London, […]
With the International Monetary Fund estimating that the late Yasser Arafat could have been holding funds over £500,000,000 in various accounts around the world and US Intelligence putting this figure as high as $5 billion, Michael Fabricant has tabled urgent parliamentary questions today (Friday) to Gordon Brown and Hillary Benn, the Secretary of State for […]
Burntwood based manufacturing company, Delta Process Systems Ltd, was visited by Lichfield Member of Parliament, Michael Fabricant, on Friday last (5th November). Mr Fabricant, a well known champion of British technology and the manufacturing industry and Shadow Minister for Industry and Technology, met Delta’s managing director, Dave Meller and commercial manager Bob Hughes, who described […]
Michael Fabricant says: "It’s a fact that too many restaurant owners still don’t know that it is legal for guide dogs to be admitted with their blind or partially sighted owners. "A recent survey showed more than half of guide dog owners have been turned away by a service provider such as a restaurant, pub, […]
Michael Fabricant has been re-elected Joint Chairman of the Royal Marines All-Party Parliamentary Group by MPs and lords from all political parties. Immediately after the election, Major General Jim Dutton CBE who is the Commandant General of the Corps addressed the meeting. He outlined the exercises and operations of the Royal Marines over the past […]
Following a meeting yesterday between Home Office Minister, Hazel Blears, and the Staffordshire Police Authority Chairman and Treasurer, the Chief Constable of Staffordshire, and some Staffordshire MPs, Michael Fabricant says: "We all expressed our deep concern to the minister that cuts which could be forced on Staffordshire Police next year would jeopardise all the improvements […]
Minister for the Army, Ivor Caplin, has thrown a question mark over the whole future of the Whittington Barracks. In answer to a question posed by Michael Fabricant about the future of the four main Army Training Regiment (ATR) Barracks, Ivor Caplin has revealed that the Government is currently investigating "the feasibility of closing one […]
Commenting on reports that the Royal Mail is preparing to close or sell up to half its high street post offices, the Shadow Minister for Industry and the Economy, Michael Fabricant, said: “The closure of 270 main post offices without any thought about replacement services is both irresponsible and damaging to the communities they serve. […]
"Super Casinos spell bad news for Lichfield or Burntwood" says Michael Fabricant" and I remain unconvinced it’s a good idea for larger conurbations like Birmingham either." Michael Fabricant who sat on the Culture Media & Sport select committee inquiry into casinos agrees that the laws on gambling need to be tidied up. "But the Gambling […]
Health Minister, Dr Stephen Ladyman, has told Michael Fabricant in a parliamentary written answer that Burntwood Lichfield and Tamworth Primary Care Trust faces "a challenging financial position" which, says Michael Fabricant: "is politically correct speech for saying they are up the creek without a paddle and are in big trouble with a shortfall of over […]