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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Sector leader
Tom Purser
Chief executive, Autism Action
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press citation on 1 topic since 24 Nov 2025 · last quoted 24 Nov 2025
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Tom Purser: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Chief executive, Autism Action
- Quoted on
- Learning disability & autism
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 24 Nov 2025
04 On the record · press
What Tom Purser has said
By outlet · linked articles
- careappointments.com1
Where Tom Purser has been quoted
- 01‘Successive governments failed to deliver real change since Autism Act 2009’ – Care Appointmentscareappointments.com · 24 Nov 2025
Verbatim
“Our awareness about autism as a society has transformed since the Act came into force in 2009, but it's not been enough and a dangerous 'overdiagnosis' narrative means the stakes are now too high.”
Related media coverage
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