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Adults with Learning Disabilities

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Modesty forbids me from encouraging him to read my speech in last Friday's debate on the Autism Bill, but that is why I suggested the Bill ought not to pass into law. In a way, it would discriminate against other people with disabilities, whose needs we do not understand either. We need to find out how many people there are with a range of disabilities and start providing the resources for them. That is a campaigning theme of the Learning Disability Coalition, which I advise. It is desperately keen for proper surveys of the number of people with learning disabilities and the complexity of their needs. It is trying to raise funds for an academic study, and perhaps my hon. Friend could put his hand in his ministerial pocket and help. Certainly, we need such a survey if we are to resource provisions properly.