PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Digital Broadcasting: Hearing Impairment (22 June 2015)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress his Department has made on ensuring digital broadcast media are accessible for people with hearing impairments.
Asked by:
Rachael Maskell (Labour)
Asked by:
Rachael Maskell (Labour)
Answer
The Government remains committed to seeing an improvement in the provision of access services for video-on-demand (VoD) services. We have been monitoring progress of the provision of access services for VoD content since 2013 through engagement with the Authority for Television On Demand (ATVOD), platform operators and content providers. If ATVOD's 2015 annual survey of VOD Services indicates that significant progress has not been made, then as stated in the Connectivity, Content and Consumers Paper (July 2013) we will consider legislation in 2016.
Answered by:
Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Conservative)
30 June 2015
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