BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNITY

That this House is aware that existing text-basedcommunications solutionsprovided by the telecommunications industry for deaf people in the UK do not provide access equivalent to that provided in other nations; notes that this denies British-based customers the use of sign language, the option to choose their service provider and to use the language of their choice; and calls on the Governmentimmediately todeliver equal access to telecommunications for the Britishsign language community by adopting the EU's Electronic Communications Framework into UK law.