Question follow-through · 9884
Hearing Impairment: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will meet with Auditory Verbal UK to discuss (a) barriers to opportunities and (b) improved outcomes for deaf children.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 17 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 24 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will meet with Auditory Verbal UK to discuss (a) barriers to opportunities and (b) improved outcomes for deaf children.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2024
Answer published
There are no current plans to meet. However, I note that my colleague the Minister for Early Education has met with and visited Auditory Verbal UK to understand the work they are doing to improve the lives of deaf children.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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