§ Mr. HagueTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what research has been commissioned to consider the benefits to be gained from hearing aids.
§ Mr. YeoWe have asked the Medical Research Council's Institute of Hearing Research to commence work on a research project: "Multiple outcome measures for evaluating hearing aid fitting". This work will investigate the benefit that people with a hearing impairment derive from an aid and how effective the aid is in alleviating disability. The research will take three years.