BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNITY

Early day motion 1746, tabled 26 April 2011 by Alan Meale (Labour). Signed by 24 members.

That this House is aware that existing text-basedcommunications solutionsprovided by the telecommunications industry for deaf people in the UK do not provide access equivalent to that provided in other nations; notes that this denies British-based customers the use of sign language, the option to choose their service provider and to use the language of their choice; and calls on the Governmentimmediately todeliver equal access to telecommunications for the Britishsign language community by adopting the EU's Electronic Communications Framework into UK law.

Signatures by party: Labour 18, Liberal Democrat 3, DUP 2, Alliance 1.