§ Mr. John McAllion (Dundee, East)With your leave, Mr. Speaker, I wish to present a petition that has been signed by 1,125 people who live in the Dundee and Tayside areas. It asks the House to recognise that Britain's 4 million deaf people have the same rights of access to television as every other citizen and calls on the House to ensure that legislation be passed placing an obligation on television channel operators to provide complete coverage with teletext and subtitles of all programmes by a specified date.
The Government have not yet given that commitment, but I urge on them the necessity of doing so at an early date.
§ To lie upon the Table.