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Provision Of Sign Language Classes For Parents Of Deaf Children

EDM number 1358 in 1997-98, proposed by Tim Loughton on 20/05/1998.

That this House congratulates the National Deaf Children's Society on its recent parliamentary reception which drew attention to the needs of deaf children and their families; notes the unique difficulties associated with deafness in the family where 90 per cent of deaf children are born to hearing parents and where those parents themselves may often struggle to communicate with their own children; further notes that provision of British Sign Language classes for parents nationwide is patchy and in some areas non-existent, with no clear direction for education and social services departments; and calls upon the Government to address this issue at the earliest opportunity, providing a national directive to tackle the problem enabling the parents of deaf children who need it to attend sign language classes which will enable them to communicate with their children.

This motion has been signed by a total of 78 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Tim Loughton20/05/1998East Worthing & ShorehamConservativeProposed
Theresa May20/05/1998MaidenheadConservativeSigned
Mark Oaten20/05/1998WinchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Nigel Evans20/05/1998Ribble ValleyConservativeSigned
Roger Berry20/05/1998KingswoodLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley20/05/1998Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Desmond Swayne20/05/1998New Forest WestConservativeSigned
Shaun Woodward20/05/1998WitneyConservativeSigned
John Swinney21/05/1998North TaysideScottish National PartySigned
Paul Tyler21/05/1998North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Harry Barnes21/05/1998North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Bill Etherington21/05/1998Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
David Drew21/05/1998StroudLabour Co-operativeSigned
Tom Cox21/05/1998TootingLabourSigned
Vincent Cable21/05/1998TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Michie21/05/1998Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Nick Harvey21/05/1998North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Bob Russell21/05/1998ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Smyth21/05/1998Belfast SouthUUPSigned
Martin Caton21/05/1998GowerLabourSigned
Lynne Jones01/06/1998Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Tom Levitt01/06/1998High PeakLabourSigned
Peter Brand01/06/1998Isle of WightLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Cryer01/06/1998KeighleyLabourSigned
Jim Wallace01/06/1998Orkney & ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Laurence Robertson02/06/1998TewkesburyConservativeSigned
John Austin02/06/1998Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore02/06/1998HendonLabourSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe02/06/1998LeighLabourSigned
Alice Mahon02/06/1998HalifaxLabourSigned
Adrian Sanders02/06/1998TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Derek Wyatt03/06/1998Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
David Taylor03/06/1998North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
George Stevenson03/06/1998Stoke-on-Trent SouthLabourSigned
Mike Hancock03/06/1998Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Neil Gerrard03/06/1998WalthamstowLabourSigned
Michael Clapham03/06/1998Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd03/06/1998Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Barry Jones03/06/1998Alyn & DeesideLabourSigned
Gerald Howarth03/06/1998AldershotConservativeSigned
Evan Harris03/06/1998Oxford West & AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
John Cummings03/06/1998EasingtonLabourSigned
Paul Stinchcombe04/06/1998WellingboroughLabourSigned
Robert Wareing04/06/1998Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Graham Stringer04/06/1998Manchester, BlackleyLabourSigned
David Borrow04/06/1998South RibbleLabourSigned
Ronnie Fearn04/06/1998SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Dobbin04/06/1998Heywood & MiddletonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Lindsay Hoyle04/06/1998ChorleyLabourSigned
Kerry Pollard04/06/1998St AlbansLabourSigned
Sydney Chapman08/06/1998Chipping BarnetConservativeSigned
Eric Illsley11/06/1998Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara11/06/1998Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
David Chidgey15/06/1998EastleighLiberal DemocratSigned
Julie Kirkbride17/06/1998BromsgroveConservativeSigned
James Gray17/06/1998North WiltshireConservativeSigned
John McDonnell18/06/1998Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Crispin Blunt18/06/1998ReigateConservativeSigned
John Bercow18/06/1998BuckinghamConservativeSigned
Nick Hawkins18/06/1998Surrey HeathConservativeSigned
Julian Brazier18/06/1998CanterburyConservativeSigned
Graham Brady19/06/1998Altrincham & Sale WestConservativeSigned
Howard Flight22/06/1998Arundel & South DownsConservativeSigned
Christopher Fraser22/06/1998Mid Dorset & North PooleConservativeSigned
Owen Paterson23/06/1998North ShropshireConservativeSigned
John Randall23/06/1998UxbridgeConservativeSigned
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown23/06/1998CotswoldConservativeSigned
Michael Fabricant23/06/1998LichfieldConservativeSigned
Tony Clarke25/06/1998Northampton SouthLabourSigned
Anne Begg25/06/1998Aberdeen SouthLabourSigned
Christopher Gill29/06/1998LudlowConservativeSigned
Dominic Grieve29/06/1998BeaconsfieldConservativeSigned
Mark Todd02/07/1998South DerbyshireLabourSigned
Audrey Wise08/07/1998PrestonLabourSigned
Ken Livingstone15/07/1998Brent EastLabourSigned
Roy Beggs16/07/1998East AntrimUUPSigned
Archie Norman20/07/1998Tunbridge WellsConservativeSigned
Nigel Jones21/07/1998CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned

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