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Autism Bill

As a vice-chairman of the all-party group on autism, I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend on introducing the Bill. The first case that I took up as an MP back in 1997 involved a 14-year-old who had been diagnosed with Asperger's. I went to someone in education and was told, "Oh, it's not us, it's social care." I went to someone in social care and was told, "It's not us, it's the NHS." A vicious triangle ensued. In the end, it was only by banging those three people's heads together and having pooled funding that we got an action plan. Is it not essential that we use the Bill to drill down into the detail and see exactly who is responsible, to ensure proper joint working on the ground among those different agencies? That is why it is so essential that we go into that detail in the House.