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Updating our assumptions on the number of autistic people and people with a learning disability who may require detention under this Act within the amendment’s four-month timescale is very unlikely to yield different figures from those in the impact assessment that has already been published. We simply do not expect that there will be significantly different data in this timeframe, which relates to the point raised by my noble friend Lord Beamish. While I understand the need for pace, it is also about getting it right.