75th Anniversary of Formula 1

Lord Magan of Castletown Excerpts

Thursday 12th December 2024 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab)]

I thank the noble Baroness for sharing her story and put on record our thanks to Ferrari for making sure that she did not get stranded. I think we can see that our collective teams want to help as many people as possible, and it was great they were able to do so in that instance.

[Lord Magan of Castletown (Con)]

My Lords, should we not also be celebrating the extraordinary global success of the often-denigrated Milton Keynes? Milton Keynes is the global engineering and technological hub of Formula 1.

[Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab)]

I think we celebrate everyone involved with the development of Formula 1. Across “Motorsport Valley”, we have 25,000 highly skilled engineers working to support it, which is why Formula 1 is so effective. We have 45,000 people working in the pipeline for Formula 1 and wider motorsport in the UK. This is to celebrate all parts of the UK and their contribution. As someone who goes past Milton Keynes on the train every week, I think we should always celebrate Milton Keynes.