Hearing Impairment: Lipreading

(asked on 9th March 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the lack of publicly-funded provision for lip-reading classes for people with hearing loss.


Answered by
Stephen Timms Portrait
Stephen Timms
Minister of State (Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government) (Equalities)
This question was answered on 27th March 2026

I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave on 18 March 2026 to Question UIN 118960.

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