BSL Act Now! Campaign Updated News – Monday 26th April 2021
So far, 356 MPs have received a BSL Bill email letter from local Deaf and BSL supporters. We've reached 54% of a total number of 650 MPs. We still need to find more local Deaf and BSL supporters to contact another 294 MPs who haven’t received BSL Bill email letters!
Here is a video of hearing parents with their Deaf son Daniel Jillings explaining why they want to support a BSL Act. Please do share this message in the hope that we get more of a response from others. If you haven’t written an email letter to your local MP, please email BSLActNow@bda.org.uk with your home postcode and then we will send a draft email letter for you to send directly to your local MP.
We've been told that there will be a Private Member’s Bill Ballot held on the 18th and 19th May – this will be drawn like a ‘lottery’ or ‘raffle ticket’ process whereby top 10 MP's names will be selected. Therefore, we need to make all our MPs aware of the importance of a BSL Bill as much as we can. We hope that numerous MPs will agree to support this, so that there is a higher chance of us being successful in getting a BSL Bill once their names are drawn out of the Ballot, who knows!
Please tell your friends who like BSL to also write to their MPs! More details can be found via bda.org.uk/BSLActNow or email us at BSLActNow@bda.org.uk.
There are 294 parliamentary constituencies in total – do you know any friends living in any of the below constituencies? If so, tell them to get involved. Thank you.
Barking
Bermondsey and Old Southwark
Bethnal Green and Bow
Bexleyheath and Crayford
Brent Central
Chingford and Woodford Green
Dagenham and Rainham
Dulwich and West Norwood
Ealing Central and Acton
Erith and Thamesmead
Feltham and Heston
Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Hammersmith
Harrow East
Hayes and Harlington
Holborn and St Pancras
Hornchurch and Upminster
Ilford North
Islington North
Kensington
Mitcham and Morden
Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
Sevenoaks
Tottenham
Vauxhall
Wimbledon
Arundel and South Downs
Ashford
Beaconsfield
Bexhill and Battle
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
Buckingham
Canterbury
Chatham and Aylesford
Chesham and Amersham
Chichester
Crawley
Dover
Fareham
Folkestone and Hythe
Gillingham and Rainham
Gosport
Gravesham
Hastings and Rye
Havant
Henley
Maidenhead
Maidstone and The Weald
Milton Keynes North
New Forest East
New Forest West
North West Hampshire
Oxford East
Oxford West and Abingdon
Reading East
Romsey and Southampton North
Sittingbourne and Sheppey
South Thanet
Southampton, Itchen
Southampton, Test
Spelthorne
Wealden
Wycombe
Bournemouth East
Bournemouth West
Bridgwater and West Somerset
Bristol South
Camborne and Redruth
Central Devon
Cheltenham
Christchurch
Devizes
Forest of Dean
Kingswood
Mid Dorset and North Poole
Newton Abbot
North Cornwall
North Devon
North Dorset
North East Somerset
North Wiltshire
Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
Poole
Salisbury
Somerton and Frome
South Dorset
South East Cornwall
South West Wiltshire
St Austell and Newquay
St Ives
Stroud
Taunton Deane
Tewkesbury
The Cotswolds
Torridge and West Devon
Totnes
Truro and Falmouth
Wells
Ashfield
Bassetlaw
Boston and Skegness
Broxtowe
Daventry
Erewash
Gainsborough
High Peak
Leicester East
Lincoln
Louth and Horncastle
Newark
North East Derbyshire
North Warwickshire
North West Leicestershire
Nottingham East
Rushcliffe
Rutland and Melton
South Holland and The Deepings
Birmingham, Erdington
Birmingham, Hall Green
Birmingham, Hodge Hill
Coventry South
Dudley North
Dudley South
Hereford and South Herefordshire
Kenilworth and Southam
Lichfield
Ludlow
Meriden
Stafford
Staffordshire Moorlands
Stoke-on-Trent Central
Stone
Stourbridge
Tamworth
The Wrekin
West Bromwich East
Wolverhampton North East
Wolverhampton South East
Ashton-under-Lyne
Bolton North East
Bolton South East
Bolton West
Heywood and Middleton
Leigh
Makerfield
Manchester Central
Manchester, Gorton
Oldham East and Saddleworth
Oldham West and Royton
Rochdale
Salford and Eccles
Stalybridge and Hyde
Stockport
Stretford and Urmston
Wigan
Worsley and Eccles South
Blackburn
Blackpool North and Cleveleys
Blackpool South
Carlisle
Congleton
Copeland
Crewe and Nantwich
Fylde
Hyndburn
Lancaster and Fleetwood
Pendle
Penrith and The Border
Ribble Valley
Rossendale and Darwen
Shrewsbury and Atcham
Stoke-on-Trent South
Warrington North
West Lancashire
Westmorland and Lonsdale
Workington
Wyre and Preston North
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Bishop Auckland
Blyth Valley
Hartlepool
Houghton and Sunderland South
Jarrow
Kingston upon Hull East
Kingston upon Hull North
Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
Newcastle upon Tyne Central
Newcastle-under-Lyme
North West Durham
Stockton North
Barnsley Central
Barnsley East
Beverley and Holderness
Brigg and Goole
Cleethorpes
Colne Valley
East Yorkshire
Haltemprice and Howden
Harrogate and Knaresborough
Keighley
Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
Penistone and Stocksbridge
Rotherham
Scarborough and Whitby
Sheffield South East
Sheffield, Heeley
Shipley
Skipton and Ripon
Wentworth and Dearne
York Outer
Broadland
Broxbourne
Castle Point
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
Chelmsford
Clacton
Colchester
Great Grimsby
Great Yarmouth
Harwich and North Essex
Hertsmere
Huntingdon
Luton South
North East Bedfordshire
North East Cambridgeshire
North East Hertfordshire
North Norfolk
North West Norfolk
Norwich North
Norwich South
Rayleigh and Wickford
Rochford and Southend East
South Basildon and East Thurrock
South Cambridgeshire
South Norfolk
South West Bedfordshire
South West Norfolk
Southend West
Suffolk Coastal
Liverpool, Wavertree
St Helens North
St Helens South and Whiston
Wallasey
Wirral South
Aberdeen North
Airdrie and Shotts
Angus
Argyll and Bute
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
Banff and Buchan
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Central Ayrshire
Dumfries and Galloway
Dundee East
East Renfrewshire
Edinburgh North and Leith
Glasgow North
Gordon
Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
Lanark and Hamilton East
Moray
North East Fife
Ochil and South Perthshire
Perth and North Perthshire
Ross, Skye and Lochaber
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
Aberavon
Aberconwy
Alyn and Deeside
Arfon
Blaenau Gwent
Brecon and Radnorshire
Caerphilly
Cardiff West
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
Ceredigion
Clwyd West
Cynon Valley
Delyn
Gower
Llanelli
Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
Monmouth
Montgomeryshire
Neath
Newport East
Newport West
Ogmore
Pontypridd
Preseli Pembrokeshire
Rhondda
Rother Valley
Swansea East
Swansea West
Wyre Forest
Belfast West
East Antrim
Lagan Valley
Newry and Armagh
North Antrim
South Down
Upper Bann
