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Early Day Motion

EDM 1915
 
ACCESS TO TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING PEOPLE
16.07.2009


Bruce, Malcolm

That this House believes that deaf and severely hard of hearing people are being excluded from benefiting from modern telecommunications; recognises that improvements and modernisation are needed to the telephone relay services by which they and hearing telephone users communicate; further recognises that the technology required to bring about these improvements is available and is in use in several countries; further believes that wide availability of broadband connections will dramatically enhance the relay service facilities that can be offered; and calls on the Government to use the Digital Britain report as the basis to introduce a package of service developments and funding which will end the exclusion of a million of our fellow citizens.