National Library For The Blind

EDM number 961 in 2002-03, proposed by Alan Meale on 26/03/2003.

That this House notes that 2003 has been designated as the European Year of Disabled People, the aim of which is to raise awareness of the discrimination faced by disabled people and to work towards ending inequality in our society; congratulates the National Library for the Blind on its campaign to establish visually-impaired people's right to the same access to library and information services as the fully sighted; believes the current situation in the UK of fewer than five per cent. of books being available in alternative format and inadequate and largely inaccessible internet facilities for the visually impaired is inexcusable and calls upon HM Government to finance improvements to these services forthwith.

This motion has been signed by a total of 57 MPs.