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Immigration Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Swinfen (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 9 February 2016. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Immigration Bill.

My Lords, perhaps I may interrupt my noble and learned friend for a moment. What is the position of a member of the public who uses British Sign Language? My noble and learned friend says that provision is made for the authority worker who uses British Sign Language to be able to do their work in their office, but I am talking about a member of the public who goes to the public authority and his language is British Sign Language. There must be someone who can communicate with that person. I am not expecting everyone to have British Sign Language. One can use videoconferencing to deal with it, but there must be provision for members of the general public who use British sign language to communicate with appropriate people in the authority.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
768 c165GC 
Session
2015-16
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
Subjects
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