Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government when they will begin the consultation for the new Autism Strategy.

In developing the next national autism strategy, we will consider evidence and outputs from all relevant work including the recently published House of Lords Autism Act 2009 Committee’s report Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new strategy. We will be responding to the committee’s helpful recommendations, including regarding a new national autism strategy, in the new year.