| Heading: |
Hearing Impairment: Children |
| Question ID: |
1787167 |
| UIN: |
40297 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-21 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4637 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mr James Frith
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| Asking Member handle: |
JamesFrith
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@JamesFrith
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) investing in auditory verbal therapy and (b) expanding access to support for deaf children and their families. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-27 |
| 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: |
Audiology services are locally commissioned, and the responsibility for meeting the needs of non-hearing children lies with local National Health Service commissioners. It is important that local commissioners have the discretion to decide how best to mee... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |