Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Department has had with organisations representing health and care workers on the development of the draft statutory guidance implementing the adult autism strategy.

A number of events around the draft guidance for implementing the Adult Autism Strategy have taken place during the consultation period which began on 7 November and closed on 19 December 2014. These events included representatives of National Health Service provider and commissioning organisations.

In addition, the consultation was widely promoted to health and social care organisations, by third sector partners and through social media networks to reach a wide range of people and groups, including adults with autism, families and carers, and health and social care organisations that plan, commission and provide services for people with autism and their families.