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In fact, in what I call DSM-5—the diagnostic and statistical manual used in international research in the majority of English-speaking countries—mental disorders, including neurodevelopmental disorders, come first. They are at the top of the list in that classification of mental disorders. Similarly in ICD-11, the international classification of diseases used by the World Health Organization and for coding and global health monitoring, to which the UK subscribes, all forms of neurodevelopmental disorder, including autism and its spectrum, are at the top of the list of mental disorders. We have some difficulty here: the Bill before us has changed these definitions to separate them off.