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Budget (Northern Ireland) Order 2007

I am grateful to the noble Baroness. I apologise for having left the Chamber for a short period. I had to get my Coke fix. That is not to do with drugs but with diabetes. As the Minister knows, I am concerned about the piecemeal way in which the problem of autism is being dealt with. It appears to me that there is no single identifiable individual heading up an initiative on autism. The noble Baroness will be aware that, although the boards have a responsibility in this area, there is no consistency between one board and the next in how the problem is dealt with. While we would all like to see a centre of excellence, this is a pre-emptive move without any real reason behind it. Middletown is isolated from centres of population, teacher training colleges and universities. The location is an utter nonsense. I do not know whether we can draw back from this. I should like an assurance that this matter will be looked at again before we get too far down the line of spending money that could be more usefully employed.