Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 114118

Hearing Impairment: Children

Tabled: 20 February 2026
Answered: 4 March 2026

Question

Dr Luke Evans

ConservativeHinckley and Bosworth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made recent progress on developing national guidance for Auditory Verbal therapy for deaf children.

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for the provision and commissioning of services to meet the needs of their local populations, including services for non-hearing children.Auditory verbal therapy (AVT) is one type of therapy to support childre...

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