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PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
MINICOM SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS (5 March 1998)

Motion Details

That this House notes that there are 8.7 million people in Britain with a wide variety of hearing impairments, representing one adult in every six; notes that the minicom or text telephone is increasingly popular and can enable deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people to communicate effectively, especially through the BT/RNID Typetalk service; welcomes the pilot project organised by RNID and funded by BT to equip 100 honourable Members' constituency offices with minicoms to allow those honourable Members to be more accessible to their deaf constituents; and calls upon the authorities of the Houses of Parliament to provide a minicom service to enable deaf members of the public to seek general information.

Sponsored by:
Tom Levitt (Labour)

EDMS Sponsor By Party

Party
Votes
%
 
Labour
64
65%
 
 
Liberal Democrat
16
16%
 
 
Independent
10
10%
 
 
Conservative
5
5%
 
 
Non-affiliated
2
2%
 
 
Plaid Cymru
1
1%
 
Sponsor List (98 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
Lord Allan of Hallam
Lab
John Austin
LD
Jackie Ballard
Lab
Mr Harry Barnes
LD
Tom Brake
LD
Dr Peter Brand
LD
Paul Burstow
LD
Sir Vince Cable
Lab
Mr Ronnie Campbell
Lab
Lord Campbell-Savours
Lab
Mr Ivor Caplin
Con
Sir Sydney Chapman
Lab
Mr Michael Clapham
Lab
Frank Cook
Lab
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale
Ind
Jeremy Corbyn
Islington North
Lab
Tom Cox
Lab
Sir David Crausby
Lab
Mrs Ann Cryer
Lab
John Cummings
Lab
Mr Lawrence Cunliffe
Lab
Mr Keith Darvill
LD
Ed Davey
Kingston and Surbiton
Lab
Mr Terry Davis
Lab
Mr Andrew Dismore
Lab
Jim Dobbin
Lab
Dr David Drew
Lab
Julia Drown
Lab
Jeff Ennis
Lab
Bill Etherington
LD
Lord Fearn
Lab
Mrs Lorna Fitzsimons
Lab
Caroline Flint
Lab
Paul Flynn
Lab
Lord Foster of Bishop Auckland
Lab
Mr Michael Foster
LD
Andrew George
St Ives
Lab
Dr Ian Gibson
Lab
Linda Gilroy
Lab
Paul Goggins
Lab
Mrs Eileen Gordon
Lab
Fabian Hamilton
Leeds North East
Ind
Mr Mike Hancock
LD
Dr Evan Harris
Con
Sir John Hayes
South Holland and The Deepings
Lab
John Healey
Rawmarsh and Conisbrough
Ind
Kelvin Hopkins
Lab
Dr Brian Iddon
Ind
Mr Eric Illsley
Lab
Miss Melanie Johnson
LD
Lord Jones of Cheltenham
Lab
Lynne Jones
Lab
Mr David Kidney
Lab
Andy King
Lab
Dr Ashok Kumar
Lab
David Lepper
Lab
Tom Levitt (Sponsor)
Ind
Mr Ivan Lewis
Ind
Mr Ken Livingstone
PC
Mr Elfyn Llwyd
Con
Tim Loughton
Lab
Judy Mallaber
Lab
Dr John Marek
Ind
Mr Paul Marsden
Con
Baroness May of Maidenhead
Lab
Steve McCabe
Ind
John McDonnell
Hayes and Harlington
Lab
Mr Kevin McNamara
Lab
Mr Bill Michie
LD
Mrs Ray Michie
Lab
Laura Moffatt
Ind
Margaret Moran
Lab
Dr Doug Naysmith
Lab
Mr Edward O'Hara
Lab
Mr Bill Olner
LD
Lembit Öpik
Lab
Linda Perham
Lab
Mr Peter Pike
Lab
Mr Kerry Pollard
Lab
Stephen Pound
Lab
Mr Gordon Prentice
Lab
Lawrie Quinn
Lab
Mr Andy Reed
Lab
Chris Ruane
LD
Sir Bob Russell
LD
Mr Adrian Sanders
Lab
Dr Phyllis Starkey
Lab
Ian Stewart
LD
Lord Stunell
Lab
Gareth Thomas
Harrow West
Baroness Tonge
Lab
Dr Rudi Vis
Ind
Mr Robert N. Wareing
LD
Steve Webb
Lab
Brian White
Lab
Mr Alan Williams
Con
Ann Winterton
Lab
Mrs Audrey Wise

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