PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
DIGITAL HEARING AIDS IN THE NHS (1 November 2001)

Motion Details

That this House notes the commitment in the 2001 Conservative Party manifesto to provide digital hearing aids to everyone who would benefit from them over a three year period; shares the concern of the RNID that fewer than five per cent of people in need of hearing aids have access to NHS digital hearing aids, depriving almost two million existing users of an improved quality of life; is further concerned that waiting times for hearing tests and hearing aids have actually lengthened over the past two years and some patients wait for up to 24 months to receive aids, condemning many elderly people in particular to the loss of independence which hearing impairment brings; further notes the Government's failure to commit to proper funding to extend the first wave sites for improving hearing aid services; and calls on the Government to stop treating people with hearing disabilities as second-class citizens and to set about providing digital hearing aids for the backlog of people who need them without further delay.

Sponsored by:
Sir Liam Fox (Conservative)

EDMS Sponsor By Party

Party
Votes
%
 
Conservative
19
68%
 
 
Independent
3
11%
 
 
Labour
3
11%
 
 
Ulster Unionist Party
1
4%
 
 
Plaid Cymru
1
4%
 
 
Liberal Democrat
1
4%
 
Sponsor List (28 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
Con
Lord Barker of Battle
Con
Mr John Baron
Con
Sir Peter Bottomley
Con
Lord Brady of Altrincham
Con
Sir Simon Burns
Lab
Michael Connarty
Ind
Jeremy Corbyn
Islington North
Ind
Sir Jeffrey M Donaldson
LD
Sue Doughty
Con
Michael Fabricant
Con
Mr Adrian Flook
Con
Sir Liam Fox (Sponsor)
Con
Lord Goodman of Wycombe
Con
James Gray
Ind
Mr Mike Hancock
Con
Sir Oliver Heald
Con
Mr David Heathcoat-Amory
Con
Tim Loughton
Con
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
Lab
Mr Tony McWalter
Con
Dr Andrew Murrison
South West Wiltshire
Con
Mr George Osborne
Con
Dame Marion Roe
UUP
The Rev Martin Smyth
PC
Mr Simon Thomas
Lab
Joan Walley
Con
Mr David Wilshire
Con
Sir Nicholas Winterton

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