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Baroness Prosser (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 17 December 2025

Debate

Employment Gap for Blind and Sight-impaired People

Contribution

My Lords, I have been registered as partially sighted since December 2020. While I absolutely agree with the point of the Question regarding the need for employers to be more alert and more open to doing things differently—artificial intelligence plays a major part in helping blind and partially sighted people to see and proceed—I wonder whether the Minister will take away the point I wish to make, which is that there is a great deal of room for improvement in this House itself. There are many people who are very helpful but, overall, the system is completely dysfunctional. I thank the Lord Speaker for the work he has done in trying to bring this to the attention of leaders of various departments in the House, but there is no overall programme; there is in all the Civil Service departments but not in the political wings of our work. I hope the Minister will take that message away with her.

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