| Heading: |
Hearing Impairment: Health Services |
| Question ID: |
1798068 |
| UIN: |
48744 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5219 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mike Martin
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Mike Martin
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve access to NHS services for deaf people. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
2025-05-02 |
| Date answered: |
2025-05-07 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4359 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Kinnock
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| Answering Member handle: |
skinnock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@skinnock
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| Answer text: |
Integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning services to meet the needs of their local population, including deaf people.Under the Equality Act (2010), health and social care organisations must make reasonable adjustments to ensure that disabl... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |