Question follow-through · 49707
Autism
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to update the statutory guidance on the Autism Act.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 7 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
30 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to update the statutory guidance on the Autism Act.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 May 2025
Answer published
The House of Lords has established an Autism Act 2009 Committee, which is holding an inquiry to look at the Autism Act, the autism strategy, and the autism statutory guidance, and which will make recommendations to the Government by 30 November 2025. This...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Musculoskeletal Disorders: Health Services
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Spondyloarthritis: Employment
21 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help support people with axial spondyloarthritis to (a) remain in employment or (b) return to the workforce.
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30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the success rate was of each local partnership using the International Recruitment Fund in re-matching social care workers to new employers in the last 12 months.
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30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish monthly reports from each of the 15 local partnerships on re-matching social care workers to new employers.
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11 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England has made an assessment of the potential merits of commissioning selective internal radiation therapy for patients with neuroendocrine tumours.
Carers
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