§ Mr. Jack Ashley (Stoke-on-Trent, South)I have the honour to beg leave to present a petition concerning the tinnitus clinic at University College hospital. It is signed by Mr. Jack Shapiro and 71,025 others They express their deep anxiety about the possible closure of the clinic and the desperate need to keep it open.
The petition reads:
To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled:The humble petition of the British Tinnitus Association acting under the auspices of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf.Sheweth that the tinnitus clinic at University Clinic hospital, London WC1 is under threat of closure as a result of the withdrawal of funding by Bloomsbury district health authority.Wherefore your Petitioners pray that your honourable House will take such steps as may be necessary to ensure that the tinnitus clinic will remain open and so continue its diagnostic treatment and research facilities which are of benefit to tinnitus sufferers throughout the United Kingdom.And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c.To lie upon the Table.