Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 83912
Hearing Impairment: Mental Capacity
Tabled: 21 October 2025
Answered: 21 November 2025
Question
Lee Anderson
Reform UK — Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that deaf people are not wrongly identified as lacking mental capacity due to communication barriers.
Answer
Stephen KinnockThe Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 already provides a legislative basis for providing interpreters, including British Sign Language interpreters, for people with specific communication needs. One of the foundational principles of the MCA is that individua...
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