Following his completion of the Three Peaks Challenge (reaching the summits of Snowdon, Skafell Pike, and Ben Nevis – the three highest peaks in Wales, England, and Scotland all in 34 hours over the weekend of 10-11 August), Michael Fabricant yesterday (Sunday 18th August) crossed the Sands of Morecambe Bay – at low tide – […]
Michael Fabricant has asked the Royal Mail to delay the implementation of post code changes which will affect parts of Burntwood with the WS7 8 postcode. In a letter to Brian Davies, Manager of the Address Management Centre in Shrewsbury, Michael has said: "My main concern is that constituents and businesses in the area should […]
Government plans to raise vehicle excise duty on ‘gas guzzling’ 4×4 vehicles to help meet carbon dioxide emission targets are unjustified and unnecessary, so says the Association of British Drivers (ABD) and Michael Fabricant agrees. "In rural areas like Staffordshire, we are now suffering a double whammy. John Prescott’s new plans on how counties will […]
John Healey, the Government Treasury Minister responsible for Customs and Excise and VAT, has written to Michael Fabricant telling him he has "instructed" Customs officials to meet with representatives of the National Arboretum near Alrewas in Lichfield to discuss the imposition of 17.5% VAT on memorials to Britain’s war dead and seek "an outcome which […]
The House of Commons Catering Committee has just made a recommendation "that curries (for which there is considerable demand) should be made a speciality" in one of the Commons restaurants. [Paragraph 58 of the Report of the Catering Committee published this month]. But back in 1992 on 8th July when Michael Fabricant was in his […]
Michael Fabricant today called on the Government to issue the Royal Marines with the US-made M16 assault rifle to replace the "faulty" SA80-A2 weapon. Michael Fabricant, Conservative member for Lichfield and joint-chairman of the all-party Royal Marines Group at Westminster insisted that this should be done before any further trials of the SA80 were completed. […]
Michael Fabricant grilled the Prime Minister when Tony Blair agreed to be questioned by the Liaison Committee (the Committee of Chairman of House of Commons Select Committees). "As Chairman of the Information Select Committee, I was tasked with asking the Prime Minister about his relationship with the press and the whole question of ‘spin’ in […]
Michael Fabricant has obtained a commitment from the powerful Commons Culture Media and Sport Committee to investigate Wembley and the chances of a National Stadium being built in the west midlands if Wembley fails to raise the money it needs to build the stadium there. Michael, a member of the Committee, first exposed the secret […]
At a meeting at the House of Commons held this morning (Wednesday 24th July) between Staffordshire MPs and the Staffordshire Police Authority, the numbers of police officers available in the County were discussed in the light of the Government’s Formula Grant Distribution Paper just issued by the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott. This Paper suggests […]
Michael Fabricant raised in the House of Commons today the thorny question of Staffordshire School Funding following the publication earlier this week of the Government’s long-awaited Local Government Funding Consultation Paper. Far from providing fair funding for Staffordshire schoolchildren who are currently 2nd from bottom in the national funding league, of the 4 options suggested […]