Act now: Westminster Hall debate 15 October

Mon,5 October 2020
News Equality & Rights

Westminster Hall is hosting a debate on a disability-inclusive response to Coronavirus at 1.30pm on 15 October.

It is critical that you encourage your MP to attend this. You can write to your MP here: https://www.writetothem.com/

We suggest you tell them when the debate is, that you would like them to attend, and why it matters to you that the voice of disabled people is strongly put forward at this debate.

We would encourage DPOs to write to the Minister for Disability, Justin Tomlinson, requesting the same thing. You can do this by emailing him at: justin.tomlinson.mp@parliament.uk

You can follow the debate live online at Parliament TV: https://parliamentlive.tv/Commons

Parliament TV has the following statement on accessibility: 

We aim to make our websites accessible to the widest possible audience. This means that you should be able to change colours, contrast levels and fonts; zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen; navigate most of our websites using a keyboard; navigate most of our websites using speech recognition software and listen to most of our websites using a screen reader. At this present time, captioning on the live stream is not available. However, the proceedings will appear in Hansard shortly after, which can be accessed online.