Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 118959

Hearing Impairment: Lipreading

Tabled: 9 March 2026
Answered: 27 March 2026
Named Day

Question

Shaun Davies

Labour — Telford

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the lack of publicly-funded provision for lip-reading classes for people with hearing loss.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave on 18 March 2026 to Question UIN 118960.