Labour MP Mark Todd’s call comes just months after more than 100 children with visual impairment marched on Westminster to lobby government on the subject.

Todd, who spent 20 years in the print industry, has started his campaign after talking to two of his constituents whose daughter is blind.

According to Todd, the couple are forced to pay twice when buying books for their daughter, who they home tutor, because they need to pay to have them adapted as well as buying them in the first place.

He said: “It is essential that all children with sight loss have access to books and information that they can read themselves.”

The Royal National Insti­tute for the Blind (RNIB) has started up a pilot scheme for large print in conjunction with on-demand printer Lightning Source. The goal of the scheme is to make more books available to the 3m visually impaired people in the UK.

In Peterborough, the RNIB has a site that is capable of printing Braille and prints more Braille books than any other site in Europe.

But, according to figures from the RNIB, 96% of books printed in the UK are never produced in large print, Braille or audio books.

As well as its work with Lightning Source and its own printing, the RNIB is looking to work with more printers and publishers to ensure that visually impaired people have access to more books.