Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to comply with Article 109, Recital 5 of the European Electronic Communications Code in relation to people whose first language is British Sign Language.

Article 109, Subparagraph (5) of the European Electronic Communications Code states that consumers with disabilities must have an equivalent level of access to emergency services as consumers without disabilities. The Government’s position is that no steps need to be taken in order to implement this provision, as it already exists in the current EU framework (at Article 26(4) of the amended Universal Service Directive 2002/22/EC), which the UK implemented in 2011.