Parliamentarians of all parties are fully supporting early day motion 153 tabled in the House of Commons in Westminster by Mike Hancock MP of the Liberal Democrats.

The UK Autism Foundation is calling on Prime Minister David Cameron to keep his promise that he will protect the vulnerable. UKAF is calling for a raft of issues on autism to be tackled by the Coalition Government.

EDM 153 tabled in the House of Commons states -

'That this House welcomes the launch of the UK Autism Foundation's (UKAF) Keep the Promise Autism Awareness Campaign; backs the UKAF call for the Government to introduce an autism strategy for children and an autism strategy for the elderly as they are the missing pieces of the autism jigsaw in the United Kingdom; notes that UKAF has called on the Government to launch a new autism stakeholders group in order for genuine and real partnership working on autism to take place between small, medium and large autism charities and Ministers of the Government; further notes that the charity has called for permanent increases in the disability living allowance, the carer's allowance, child benefit and tax credits as many carers are working over 70 hours a week and receive 72 pence an hour according to charities; calls for all avenues to be open through mainstream, special and specialist autism schools; further notes that the UKAF has requested the Government to launch state-funded autism schools and autism academies; pays tribute to the thousands of carers who are working 24 hours looking after children and adults with autism and Asperger's syndrome; and urges the Government to provide more help and support for the vulnerable, especially poor families and people with autism and Asperger's syndrome.'

Ivan Corea of UKAF said: 'We are deeply concerned about the cuts to public services.We are urging the Coalition Government to protect parents, carers, children and adults with autism and Asperger's Syndrome from any cuts to education, health, specialist speech therapy and respite care. As Mike Hancock's EDM has stated, Autism is a 24 hour job and we have suffered pain - we have had to fight for public services for our children, every step of the way. Any cuts will be a disaster for the vulnerable and the poor. We are calling on the Coalition Government to meet their needs during these troubled times.'