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Autism Bill

Debate on bills on Friday, 19 June 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Cheryl Gillan. The answering member was Ann Keen.
Autism Bill. No amendments on consideration. Third reading debate. Agreed to on question and Bill passed.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

494 c540-83 

Session

2008-09

Department

Department of Health

Legislative stage

Third reading and Report stage

Procedure

Private members' bills proceedings

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Autism Bill. As amended in Public Bill Committee.
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Ann Keen | 494 c569 (Link to this contribution) As I said, I do not propose to go through all the definitions in detail. [Interruption.] I think tha...
Speaker | 494 c576 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am reluctant to interrupt the hon. Gentleman, particularly given the subject we are debatin...

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Annette Brooke | 494 c572 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Under-Secretary for dealing with the point. Will she ensure that we take on board the fa...
Ann Keen | 494 c569-72 (Link to this contribution) We are here to please. As I said, my hon. Friend the Minister of State wanted to be present, so he ...
Ann Keen | 494 c569 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend, and I hope that the hon. Member for Buckingham (John Bercow) is content.
Brooks Newmark | 494 c576 (Link to this contribution) I would like to finish my sentence, Mr. Deputy Speaker. My question on behalf of my constituent is: ...
Ann Keen | 494 c582-3 (Link to this contribution) I would not have expected anything less from the hon. Lady. Perhaps that could be discussed with the...
Ann Keen | 494 c581-2 (Link to this contribution) Those are most ungracious remarks. Hon. Members have asked me some very serious questions, and I hav...
Ann Keen | 494 c577-8 (Link to this contribution) Sadly, that may be the hon. Lady's personal experience of cases in her constituency. I, too, recogni...
Ann Keen | 494 c576-7 (Link to this contribution) As I continue my speech, I will address that point. I recognise that the difficulty raised by the ho...
Baroness Browning | 494 c577 (Link to this contribution) We have made the point about GPs before. It is not that we expect them to diagnose someone; it is th...
Cheryl Gillan | 494 c542-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes an excellent point. The problem is like an iceberg: we can see the tip, but we c...
Cheryl Gillan | 494 c542 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely correct: the figure is 15 per cent. However, as my hon. Friend knows, and as I kn...
John Baron | 494 c541-2 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend would also agree that there is grave concern among parents of children...
Lord Boswell of Aynho | 494 c540 (Link to this contribution) The congratulations expressed to my hon. Friend, as well as to my hon. Friend the Member for Tiverto...
Cheryl Gillan | 494 c540 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his generous remarks, but it really has been a team effort.
Cheryl Gillan | 494 c540 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I cannot tell you how ...
Liz Blackman | 494 c547-9 (Link to this contribution) I also pay a huge tribute to the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Angela Browning) for her prom...
Liz Blackman | 494 c549-51 (Link to this contribution) I agree. The culture of the workplace is a key factor in getting young people with autism into emplo...
Baroness Browning | 494 c551-2 (Link to this contribution) I begin by joining other speakers in thanking and paying tribute to the many Members from all parts ...
Cheryl Gillan | 494 c547 (Link to this contribution) I omitted to mention the hon. Member for Burton (Mrs. Dean) in my speech, although I had her name wr...
Liz Blackman | 494 c547 (Link to this contribution) I start by putting it on the record that I was wrong on Second Reading not to wish the Bill to go in...
Cheryl Gillan | 494 c544 (Link to this contribution) That is a very valid point; I have come across that issue as well. I hope that the Minister will be ...
David Howarth | 494 c544 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Lady on getting this far with her excellent Bill. I have one small concern a...
Liz Blackman | 494 c546 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with the hon. Lady about having someone in the Department of Health with that spe...
John Bercow | 494 c562 (Link to this contribution) To build on the point made by the hon. Member for Erewash (Liz Blackman), does my hon. Friend the Me...
Anne Milton | 494 c562-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. Of course, it is pretty shocking when one hears of a t...
Anne Milton | 494 c560-1 (Link to this contribution) I was always aware of the danger that this morning's speeches would sound a little more like an Osca...
John Bercow | 494 c559 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is saying from a sedentary position that she made all these points in her speech. I a...
Liz Blackman | 494 c560 (Link to this contribution) On that point, there is no harm in repeating that message several times in this Chamber.
John Bercow | 494 c553 (Link to this contribution) I would rather be on your side!
John Bercow | 494 c555 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has rightly paid gracious tribute to the NAS. I am always conscious that there are uns...
Annette Brooke | 494 c555-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention; I am very pleased to support it, although I am rath...
Cheryl Gillan | 494 c559 (Link to this contribution) It is such a shame that my hon. Friend was not here for the opening speeches, because I was able to ...
Cheryl Gillan | 494 c563 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for the contribution that she is making, from the Front Bench, on behalf of t...
Ann Keen | 494 c565-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Guildford (Anne Milton) for her warm words and encouragement and hope th...
Ann Keen | 494 c568 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend; using the knowledge that she gained from being on the Committee, she has cla...
Brooks Newmark | 494 c575-6 (Link to this contribution) Before I ask a question on this very subject from a constituent I met a couple of weeks ago, I would...
Liz Blackman | 494 c569 (Link to this contribution) Just for a bit of clarity, let me point out that, in Committee, the Minister of State, Department of...
Cheryl Gillan | 494 c582 (Link to this contribution) I can see that the Minister is getting to the end of her great sheaf of papers and I thank her for s...
Michael Mates | 494 c580-1 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the hon. Lady unreservedly on the way in which she has been dealing with her spee...
Ann Keen | 494 c579-80 (Link to this contribution) I hope to receive guidance from my officials on that before I finish my speech, because I would like...
Cheryl Gillan | 494 c578 (Link to this contribution) I am amazed at the response I am getting from the Minister—I am sure everybody is. She has been talk...
Baroness Browning | 494 c542 (Link to this contribution) Following on from that point, it is true that parents worry about their children's education and abi...
Liz Blackman | 494 c542 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady not also agree that it is people with high-functioning autism who are the most hi...
Cheryl Gillan | 494 c542 (Link to this contribution) That is probably the most moving part of my encounters with families with children who have autism. ...
Cheryl Gillan | 494 c540-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. I refer him to clause 2(5)(f), which specifically covers""the training of s...
Mike Penning | 494 c540 (Link to this contribution) Before my hon. Friend praises more Members from across the House, may I pay tribute to her work in t...
Baroness Browning | 494 c553 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has devoted a lot of time to, and developed a lot of expertise in, this topic and rel...
Liz Blackman | 494 c551 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, but it is all part of the same package: implementing something is a moving process and t...
Cheryl Gillan | 494 c551 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that it is not just the implementation that is important; it is also contin...
John Bercow | 494 c552 (Link to this contribution) First, may I apologise for my tardiness in coming to the Chamber this morning? What my hon. Friend s...
Cheryl Gillan | 494 c546-7 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. The hon. Lady's point is taken. The trouble is, however, that everything changes. I am l...
Cheryl Gillan | 494 c543-4 (Link to this contribution) I see both Ministers nodding, which I will take as confirmation of what will be going through. In d...
Cheryl Gillan | 494 c545-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a point that has gone through my mind, but this is not an all-encompassing, ca...
Andrew Murrison | 494 c545 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on the Bill; it represents a positive step forward. I, too, am concern...
John Bercow | 494 c559 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend and I would have greatly enjoyed hearing her speech. I hav...
Liz Blackman | 494 c561-2 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady not agree that the many people who have high-functioning autism and have never ha...
Anne Milton | 494 c562 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes an excellent point, and, as she rightly says, some of the groups of people whom ...
John Bercow | 494 c560 (Link to this contribution) I rather expected that the hon. Lady would be tolerant of and sympathetic to the point. Let us go f...
Annette Brooke | 494 c557-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, and that is why I am so pleased to see the level of de...
John Bercow | 494 c558-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure and a privilege to follow the hon. Member for Mid-Dorset and North Poole (Annette B...
Baroness Browning | 494 c553-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that remark. I am so weary of having to keep writing the same th...
Annette Brooke | 494 c554-5 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Chesham and Amersham (Mrs. Gillan) on introducing the Bill, on th...
Anne Milton | 494 c563-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for re-emphasising that important point about the gap between the group of se...
John Bercow | 494 c564 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an admirable speech, but in referring to the DWP she prompts me to highligh...
Anne Milton | 494 c565 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes yet another excellent point. If I recall correctly, my hon. Friend the Member f...
John Bercow | 494 c568-9 (Link to this contribution) I certainly have no desire to strike a discordant note; as I said, I admire the way in which the Gov...
Ann Keen | 494 c569 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman, whose earlier contribution demonstrated so well his commitment to the subject, r...
John Bercow | 494 c569 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that, and I am reassured.
David Howarth | 494 c557 (Link to this contribution) Similar situations occur in many parts of the country. Even in Cambridge, where one would expect a h...
Liz Blackman | 494 c568 (Link to this contribution) In Committee, we had a good debate about this issue, and the Minister reassured everybody that altho...
David S Borrow | 494 c549 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my concern about the difficulties that some young adults with autism face ...
Ann Keen | 494 c572-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a valuable point. In my borough—the London borough of Hounslow—we have an organi...

Subjects

Disclosure of information
Autism
Health services
Learning disability
Employment services
Training
Social services

Legislation

Autism Bill 2008-09

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