Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward legislative proposals on autism.

The Autism Act was made and given Royal Assent on 12 November 2009.

The Act places three key duties on the Secretary of State for Health:

- To produce a strategy for meeting the needs of adults in England with autistic spectrum conditions (the Strategy), and to keep the Strategy under review;

- To produce Statutory Guidance for local councils and local health bodies on implementing the Strategy which they have a duty to act in accordance with; and

- To keep the Statutory Guidance under review, considering, in particular, the extent to which the guidance has been effective in securing the implementation of the strategy.