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Telecommunication Services For The Hard Of Hearing

EDM number 1637 in 1993-94, proposed by Janet Anderson on 21/10/1994.

That this House is concerned to learn that the British Approvals Board for Telecommunications may be considering the reduction of end to end transmission and reception sound levels and that an approach has apparently been made to the British Standards Institute suggesting there should be a new standard which would not require telephone manufacturers to adapt telephones for the United Kingdom; believes that the adoption of such a new standard would open the United Kingdom market to foreign imports and would seriously affect the three million users of hearing aids, for whom any reduction in loudness ratings would be intolerable, and that a further three million hard of hearing people who are able to manage without a hearing aid now may not be able to use the telephone if a lower standard is applied; and calls upon the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to abandon this misguided policy.

This motion has been signed by a total of 58 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Janet Anderson21/10/1994Rossendale & DarwenProposed
David Hanson21/10/1994DelynSigned
Greg Pope21/10/1994HyndburnSigned
John Denham24/10/1994Southampton, ItchenSigned
Harry Barnes24/10/1994North East DerbyshireSigned
Tony Banks24/10/1994Newham North WestSigned
John Gunnell24/10/1994Leeds South and MorleySigned
Jim Dowd24/10/1994Lewisham WestSigned
Keith Bradley24/10/1994Manchester, WithingtonSigned
William McKelvey24/10/1994Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
John McAllion24/10/1994Dundee EastSigned
Liz Lynne24/10/1994RochdaleSigned
Lynne Jones24/10/1994Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Eric Illsley24/10/1994Barnsley CentralSigned
Peter Hardy24/10/1994WentworthSigned
Dennis Skinner24/10/1994BolsoverSigned
Ernie Ross24/10/1994Dundee WestSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe25/10/1994LeighSigned
Paddy Tipping25/10/1994SherwoodSigned
Hugh Bayley25/10/1994York, City ofSigned
John Cummings25/10/1994EasingtonSigned
Ann Coffey25/10/1994StockportSigned
Eric Clarke25/10/1994MidlothianSigned
Anne Campbell25/10/1994CambridgeSigned
Bill Michie25/10/1994Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Alan Meale25/10/1994MansfieldSigned
Ieuan Wyn Jones25/10/1994Ynys MSigned
Barry Jones25/10/1994Alyn & DeesideSigned
Robert Hughes25/10/1994Aberdeen NorthSigned
Bridget Prentice25/10/1994Lewisham EastSigned
Terry Patchett25/10/1994Barnsley EastSigned
James Callaghan25/10/1994Heywood & MiddletonSigned
Keith Vaz26/10/1994Leicester EastSigned
Dennis Turner26/10/1994Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Tommy Graham26/10/1994Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Michael Clapham26/10/1994Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Jamie Cann26/10/1994IpswichSigned
Tony Lloyd26/10/1994StretfordSigned
Helen Jackson26/10/1994Sheffield, HillsboroughSigned
John Heppell26/10/1994Nottingham EastSigned
Peter Pike26/10/1994BurnleySigned
Edward O'Hara26/10/1994Knowsley SouthSigned
Norman Godman27/10/1994Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Mike Hall27/10/1994Warrington SouthSigned
Win Griffiths27/10/1994BridgendSigned
John Evans27/10/1994St Helens NorthSigned
Derek Enright27/10/1994HemsworthSigned
Ian Davidson27/10/1994Glasgow, GovanSigned
Ken Livingstone27/10/1994Brent EastSigned
Glenda Jackson27/10/1994Hampstead & HighgateSigned
Russell Johnston28/10/1994Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSigned
Dafydd Wigley28/10/1994CaernarfonSigned
Malcolm Bruce31/10/1994GordonSigned
Mildred Gordon31/10/1994Bow and PoplarSigned
Martyn Jones01/11/1994Clwyd South WestSigned
Ian McCartney01/11/1994MakerfieldSigned
Jack Thompson01/11/1994WansbeckSigned
Simon Hughes02/11/1994Southwark and BermondseySigned

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