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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
17
59%
 
 
Liberal Democrat
6
21%
 
 
Conservative
3
10%
 
 
Independent
3
10%
 
Sponsor List (29 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
LD
Jackie Ballard
LD
Dr Peter Brand
Lab
Lord Campbell-Savours
Lab
Mr Ivor Caplin
Lab
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale
Ind
Jeremy Corbyn
Islington North
Lab
Mr Lawrence Cunliffe
LD
Ed Davey
Kingston and Surbiton
LD
Lord Fearn
Lab
Lord Foster of Bishop Auckland
Lab
Dr Ian Gibson
Lab
Fabian Hamilton
Leeds North East
Con
Sir John Hayes
South Holland and The Deepings
Lab
John Healey
Rawmarsh and Conisbrough
Lab
Miss Melanie Johnson
Lab
David Lepper
Con
Tim Loughton
Lab
Dr John Marek
Con
Baroness May of Maidenhead
Lab
Steve McCabe
Ind
John McDonnell
Hayes and Harlington
LD
Mrs Ray Michie
Ind
Margaret Moran
Lab
Lawrie Quinn
LD
Sir Bob Russell
Lab
Dr Phyllis Starkey
Lab
Gareth Thomas
Harrow West
Lab
Brian White
Lab
Mrs Audrey Wise

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