Brawn GP's success celebrated in Parliament


By Phil Huff
October 21 2009

The success of Brawn GP and Jenson Button has not gone unnoticed by the UK government, with MP Richard Burden tabling an early day motion requesting that the House of Commons celebrates the achievements of the Brackley team.

Burden, Labour MP for Birmingham Northfield, tabled the motion yesterday, supported by four other members of parliament.

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The motion, titled 'World Championship Achievements of Jenson Button and Brawn GP', which can be found here, reads: "That this House celebrates the success of Jenson Button and Brawn GP in winning the Formula 1 World Drivers and Constructors championships; recognises the massive achievement that this represents as the Brawn team was only created at the start of 2009 following the withdrawal of Honda from Formula 1; pays tribute to all those who have contributed to this achievement, including the drivers, Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello, the leadership team of Ross Brawn and Nick Fry, all the current staff of Brawn GP and all those former Honda employees who are no longer with Brawn but whose work before 2009 also helped build the foundations for success this year; and notes that Brawn's success underlines the excellence of the UK's motorsport and performance engineering industries."

This isn't the first time such a motion has been tabled, with Bob Spink, an Independent member of Parliament for Castle Point in Essex, tabling a motion titled 'Brawn F1 Team' back in March, asking that the House "congratulates the Brawn GP Formula 1 team on its remarkable success in the 2009 Australian Grand Prix; recognises that Brawn GP employs several hundred people in Britain in its Formula 1 team; notes the contribution that the Brawn Team makes to British sporting excellence and to promoting British engineering and technology and developing safer and more fuel-efficient systems for use by ordinary motorists; and calls on the Government to offer greater incentives to businesses to increase engineering and technology research and manufacturing."

Early Day motions are submitted for debate in the House of Commons. However, very few EDMs are actually debated. Instead, they are used for reasons such as publicising the views of individual MPs, drawing attention to specific events or campaigns, and demonstrating the extent of parliamentary support for a particular cause or point of view.

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