Access To Telecommunications For Deaf People

EDM number 1438 in 2010-12, proposed by Malcolm Bruce on 09/02/2011.
Categorised under the topic of Disability discrimination.

That this House is concerned that over 50,000 deaf people, whose first language is British Sign Language (BSL), do not have equal access to telecommunications in the UK; recognises new economic research which demonstrates that if an open, competitive market for video relay services for BSL users were established, significant net benefits for the UK economy would be created; believes that deaf people have a right to access telecommunications in a manner equivalent to the way hearing people use the telephone every day and that current text-based solutions for deaf people do not provide equal access; and calls on the Government to take appropriate action to address this matter, creating a genuine opportunity for telecommunications equality for the BSL community for the first time.

This motion has been signed by a total of 104 MPs.