§ Mr. Ben ChapmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the availability of NHS digital hearing aids in Wirral South. [139546]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe Wirral Hospitals National Health Service Trust manages the provision of digital hearing aids across the Wirral, including Wirral South. Funding has been made available for the years 2003–04 and 2004–05 to ensure that a modernised service, providing digital hearing aids, will be available from all NHS hearing aids services in England by 2005.