Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:09 pm on 12 October 2016.
I’d certainly like to give the legislation and the new integrated autism service, which, as I say, only came into force in April of this year, a chance to bed in. But, I think, what is really important is that I met recently with NAS Cymru and I’ve asked them to work through their draft Bill, which I assume is the same as your draft Bill, with my officials, identifying areas that they believe cannot be met already through the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 or the policy direction that I’ve set out for you in the debate today, and I look forward to receiving the results of that work to understand where there are gaps in what your Bill would like to achieve as compared to the legislation and the policy that already exist. That piece of work with the National Autistic Society is ongoing at the moment. I do think, to conclude, that there is now a need to give the new legislation and policies the time to be delivered, time to bed in and to demonstrate their effect, before we can decide whether there is a need to introduce another piece of legislation.