Early Day Motion·EDM 1060

BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE ACT

14 March 201758 Signatures

Primary sponsor

Dawn Butler

LabourBrent East

Motion Text

That this House welcomes the 14th anniversary of the Government's official recognition of British Sign Language on 18 March 2017; celebrates the culture and heritage of sign language; and calls on the Government to enact a British Sign Language Act in England to give British Sign Language full legal status as is afforded to other officially recognised languages