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PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
DIGITAL HEARING AIDS (13 November 2002)

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 who need them without further delay.

Sponsored by:
Sir Liam Fox (Conservative)

EDMS Sponsor By Party

Party
Votes
%
 
Conservative
57
83%
 
 
Independent
6
9%
 
 
Not Available
2
3%
 
 
Ulster Unionist Party
2
3%
 
 
Speaker
1
1%
 
 
Democratic Unionist Party
1
1%
 
Sponsor List (69 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
Con
Sir David Amess
Con
Mr David Atkinson
Con
Sir Tony Baldry
Con
Lord Barker of Battle
Con
Mr John Baron
UUP
Mr Roy Beggs
Spk
John Bercow
Con
Lord Blencathra
Con
Sir Julian Brazier
Con
Sir Simon Burns
Derek Conway
Con
Mr Jonathan Djanogly
Ind
Sir Jeffrey M Donaldson
Con
Mr Peter Duncan
Con
Mr Nigel Evans
Con
Lord Flight
Con
Mr Adrian Flook
Con
Sir Liam Fox (Sponsor)
Con
Mr Mark Francois
Rayleigh and Wickford
Con
Lord Garnier
Con
Dame Cheryl Gillan
Con
Lord Goodman of Wycombe
Con
James Gray
Con
Lord Grayling
Con
Mr John Greenway
Ind
Mr Dominic Grieve
Con
Lord Hammond of Runnymede
Con
Sir Oliver Heald
Ind
Lady Hermon
Con
Lord Horam
DUP
Mr Andrew Hunter
Con
Robert Key
Con
Julie Kirkbride
Con
Baroness Laing of Elderslie
Con
Mrs Jacqui Lait
Con
Sir Julian Lewis
New Forest East
Con
Sir David Lidington
Con
The Marquess of Lothian
Con
Tim Loughton
Con
Sir Peter Luff
Con
Baroness May of Maidenhead
Con
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
Ind
Patrick Mercer
Con
Mr Malcolm Moss
Con
Dr Andrew Murrison
South West Wiltshire
Con
Mr Stephen O'Brien
Con
Mr George Osborne
Con
Lord Randall of Uxbridge
Con
Sir Hugh Robertson
Ind
Mrs Iris Robinson
Con
Dame Marion Roe
Con
Andrew Rosindell
Romford
Con
Mr David Ruffley
Mr Jonathan Sayeed
Con
Andrew Selous
UUP
The Rev Martin Smyth
Con
Dame Caroline Spelman
Ind
Bob Spink
Con
Sir Desmond Swayne
New Forest West
Con
Sir Robert Syms
Con
Mr Robert Walter
Con
Mr Nigel Waterson
Con
Dame Angela Watkinson
Con
Miss Ann Widdecombe
Con
Sir Bill Wiggin
Con
Lord Willetts
Con
Mr David Wilshire
Con
Ann Winterton
Con
Sir Nicholas Winterton

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