Following the MIA’s recent Industry in Parliament Day, Members will be pleased to see the immediately positive effect the visit had when reading just two comments made in a debate on Manufacturing.
The full debate is available on the Parliamentary Hansard but key extracts are:
Richard Burden, MP, Chair of the All Party Motor Group (Labour):
“...It was even clearer this week when motor sport industry representatives came to Parliament to talk about its potential—some hon. Members might have seen the industry’s exhibitions. It is involved in a range of areas—from green technologies to defence equipment—that go well beyond motorsport, and at the root of that involvement is the industry’s ability and willingness to take risk.”
John Thurso, MP, Shadow Minister for Business (Liberal Democrats):
“The second opportunity on which I want to touch .....relates to the motor sport industry. I had a fascinating meeting with the industry’s representatives. I love what this industry is doing. There is such quality and breadth in its engineering.
Everybody thinks that it is just to do with Formula 1, but it is not—it is about advanced gearboxes for articulated lorries which will reduce the amount of fuel used, about electric transmission, about the aerospace and defence industries and about £6 billion of exports. The motor sport industry, too, needs to be supported.”
Click here to read the full Hansard extracts.
