Text Message 999 Service

EDM number 68 in 2009-10, proposed by Adrian Sanders on 18/11/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Emergency services.

That this House notes that there is no facility to allow people to use text messages to contact blue light emergency services and believes that such a service could assist people needing to contact the emergency services while unable to speak; and calls on the Government to encourage the mobile telephone industry to come up with a text message 999 number through which blue light emergency services can be contacted.

This motion has been signed by a total of 42 MPs.