Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I want to say at the outset that everyone in this Chamber wants to improve outcomes and the quality of life for autistic people and their families. And I agree that support for autistic people needs to be better. That support is not yet consistently available, and for some families it does feel like a fight to get the right support and a system that works against them. Many, if not all of us across this Chamber, will have heard this experience directly from our constituents, will recognise the impact that this can have on families that we have been elected to serve, and more than that, there are a number of people across this Chamber who recognise that experience from within our own families.

There are real, legitimate and serious concerns that I and the Government take seriously and are committed to addressing. That is why this Government has invested significantly and will continue to invest in new services. The difference in this Chamber is not whether we should improve services to make a real difference to the lived experience of autistic people and their families; the difference is how we make that difference.

I would like to thank the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee and the Finance Committee for bringing together a wide range of views as they scrutinised the legislation. The committee reports demonstrate a wide consensus in seeking to make improvement in our autism services. None of the Assembly committee reports make a positive recommendation that the Bill should proceed. We believe that we have all the legislative powers that we need to deliver the required improvements in autism services, and we are delivering on our commitments set out in the autism strategy. If the improvements that we're committed to make are not realised, then the door is of course open to future legislation, if that would make the difference that we all want to see.