Daily Report Monday, 8 April 2019 This report shows written answers and statements provided on 8 April 2019 and the information is correct at the time of publication (06:37 P.M., 08 April 2019). For the latest information on written questions and answers, ministerial corrections, and written statements, please visit: http://www.parliament.uk/writtenanswers/ CONTENTS ANSWERS 7 Lambeth Conference 16 BUSINESS, ENERGY AND Pregnancy 16 INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 7 Voting Behaviour 17 Automation 7 DEFENCE 17 Business: North West 8 Bomb Disposal: Northern Consumer Goods: Electrical Ireland 17 Safety 9 Firing Ranges 18 Consumers: Protection 10 Navy: Military Bases 19 Electricity: Storage 10 Royal Fleet Auxiliary: Energy: Government Procurement 19 Assistance 10 Saudi Arabia: European Engineering: Construction 11 Fighter Aircraft 19 Fracking 11 Saudi Arabia: Military Aid 20 Furniture and Furnishings Singapore: Navy 20 (Fire) (Safety) Regulations Type 31 Frigates: 1988 12 Procurement 20 Living Wage: Moray 12 Uganda: Military Aid 21 Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Yemen: Overseas Workers 21 Emissions 13 DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND Music: Licensing 13 SPORT 21 Offshore Industry 13 Advertising: Statistics 21 Self-employed 14 Art Works 22 Third Energy 14 Cricket: Females 22 CHURCH COMMISSIONERS 15 Gaming Machines 23 Church Services: Attendance 15 Internet 23 Loneliness: Young People 24 ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND Mobile Phones: Fees and RURAL AFFAIRS 39 Charges 25 Air Pollution: Nottinghamshire 39 EDUCATION 25 Air Pollution: Nurseries and Academies 25 Schools 40 Adult Education: Finance 26 Air Pollution: Schools 41 Adult Education: Trade Unions 27 Circuses: Animal Welfare 41 Apprentices 28 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Arms Care Leavers 28 Length Bodies 42 Care Leavers: Supported Dogs: Smuggling 42 Housing 29 Food: Exports 43 Children: Food Poverty 29 Nature Conservation 44 Children's Centres: Mental Health Services 30 Recycling 45 Education: Finance 30 River Itchen: Atrazine 45 Food Poverty: Academic Year 32 Sheep 45 Pupil Exclusions 33 Sheep Meat: Imports 46 Pupil Exclusions: Free School Smuggling: Dogs 47 Meals 33 Solid Fuels: Heating 47 Pupils: Absenteeism 34 UN Convention on Biological Pupils: Sanitary Protection 34 Diversity 47 Schools: Climate Change 35 Water Abstraction 48 Schools: Discipline 35 Water Companies 49 Schools: Fire Prevention 36 Water: Pollution 49 Schools: Fires 36 EXITING THE EUROPEAN UNION 50 Schools: North West 36 Department for Exiting the Sixth Form Education: Finance 37 European Union: Ministers 50 Special Educational Needs: Department for Exiting the Autism 37 European Union: Visits Abroad 50 Special Educational Needs: EU Budget: Contributions 50 Pupil Exclusions 38 FOREIGN AND Students: Apprentices 38 COMMONWEALTH OFFICE 51 Teachers: Training 39 Brunei: Visits Abroad 51 Libya: IRA 51 Marcus Hutchins 51 Emergency Services Network: Najah Ahmed Yousif 52 Scotland 66 South Asia: Air Pollution 52 EU Nationals: Private Rented Housing 66 Yemen: Airports 52 Fire and Rescue Services: Yemen: Humanitarian Aid 53 Emergency Calls 67 Yemen: Military Intervention 53 Fire Regulations 67 Yemen: Peace Negotiations 54 Generation Identity 68 HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 55 Immigrants: Glasgow Central 68 Ambulance Services: Labour Immigration: EU Nationals 68 Turnover 55 Immigration: Windrush Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Generation 69 Research 56 Members: Correspondence 71 Dementia: Care Homes 56 Mental Illness: Police Custody 71 Health Professions: Sick Leave 57 Metropolitan Police: Stop and Search 72 Hyperkalemia 57 Migrant Workers: Nurses and NHS 58 Social Workers 72 NHS: Drugs 58 Offensive Weapons Bill: NHS: Equal Pay 59 Northern Ireland 73 NHS: Pastoral Care 60 Police Pursuits 73 NHS: Pensions 60 Prosecutions 73 NHS: Sexual Harassment 60 Radicalism 74 Obesity: Children 61 Refugees: Children 74 Pancreatic Cancer 61 Shoplifting: Birmingham Prescription Drugs 62 Edgbaston 74 Prescription Drugs: Packaging 63 Shoplifting: Gillingham and Rainham 75 Public Health: Enfield 63 Shoplifting: Kingston upon Hull Social Services: Minimum West and Hessle 75 Wage 64 Slavery: Victims 76 Sterilisation 64 Stop and Search 76 HOME OFFICE 64 UK Visas and Immigration: Counter-terrorism: Finance 64 Portsmouth 77 Crimes of Violence 65 Unexplained Wealth Orders 78 Visas 78 Overseas Aid 89 HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND Southern Africa: Storms 89 LOCAL GOVERNMENT 78 Yemen: Humanitarian Aid 90 5G 78 Yemen: Internally Displaced Buildings: Insulation 79 People 90 Homelessness: Sikhs 80 Yemen: Visas 91 Housing: Construction 81 INTERNATIONAL TRADE 91 Housing: Fire Extinguishers 81 beoutQ 91 Housing: Students 81 Trade Agreements 92 Local Government: Freedom Trade: Republic of Ireland 92 of Information 82 JUSTICE 92 Local Growth Deals: Alternatives to Prosecution 92 Borderlands 82 Alternatives to Prosecution: Ministry of Housing, Shoplifting 93 Communities and Local Government: Ministers 83 Coroners: Suicide 94 Multiple Occupation: Liverpool 83 Crimes of Violence: Shops 94 Multiple Occupation: Liverpool Forced Marriage: Greater Wavertree 83 London 95 Planning Obligations 83 Mental Illness: Employment Tribunals Service 95 Private Rented Housing 84 Ministry of Justice: Ministers 95 Social Rented Housing: Mental Illness 84 Offences Against Children: Convictions 96 UK Shared Prosperity Fund 85 Probation: Standards 96 West Midlands Combined Authority: Borrowing 87 Reoffenders: Community Orders 97 INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 87 NORTHERN IRELAND 97 Department for International Offensive Weapons Bill: Development: International Northern Ireland 97 Monetary Fund and World SCOTLAND 97 Bank 87 Food Banks: Scotland 97 Department for International TRANSPORT 98 Development: Ministers 88 A34: Oxfordshire 98 Developing Countries: Cocoa 88 Driving Tests: Refugees 98 Kenya: LGBT People 88 Railways: Demonstrations 98 Employment and Support Regional Airports: Public Allowance 109 Service Obligations 99 Employment Schemes: Young Trams: West Midlands 99 People 110 TREASURY 99 Food Banks: Scotland 111 Air Passenger Duty 99 Occupational Health: Construction 111 Brexit: Arfon 100 Pensioners: Personal Brexit: Carmarthen East and Independence Payment 112 Dinefwr 100 Poverty: Children 112 Brexit: Ceredigion 101 Social Security Benefits: Brexit: Dwyfor Meirionnydd 101 Medical Examinations 112 Consumer Credit Act 1974 102 State Retirement Pensions: Department for Transport: Automated Credit Transfer 113 Public Expenditure 102 State Retirement Pensions: Economics of Biodiversity Single People 113 Review 102 Support for Mortgage Interest 114 Food: Charitable Donations 103 Universal Credit 114 London Capital and Finance 103 Universal Credit: Private NHS: Kilmarnock and Loudoun 104 Rented Housing 115 Pay 104 Work Capability Assessment 116 Public Sector: Procurement 104 MINISTERIAL CORRECTIONS 117 Royal Bank of Scotland 105 HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 117 Royalties: Taxation 105 Primary Health Care 117 WALES 106 Primary Health Care: Females 118 Brexit: Wales 106 WRITTEN STATEMENTS 120 UK Shared Prosperity Fund: BUSINESS, ENERGY AND Wales 106 INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 120 WOMEN AND EQUALITIES 106 Companies House Public Public Sector: Equal Pay 106 Targets 2019/2020 120 WORK AND PENSIONS 107 DEFENCE 120 Asbestos: Compensation 107 Counter-Daesh Operations 120 Children: Maintenance 108 HOME OFFICE 121 Department for Work and Immigration 121 Pensions: Ministers 109 The Prime Minister’s Serious April 2019 123 Youth Violence Summit, 1-4 Notes: Questions marked thus [R] indicate that a relevant interest has been declared. Questions with identification numbers of 900000 or greater indicate that the question was originally tabled as an oral question and has since been unstarred. ANSWERS BUSINESS, ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Automation Helen Hayes: [240041] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the Office for National Statistics analysis of the occupations at highest risk of being automated. Helen Hayes: [240042] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans his Department has to ensure workers whose jobs are at risk of automation are supported with training in new skills to find new work. Helen Hayes: [240043] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the article published on 25 March 2019 by the Office of National Statistics entitled Which occupations are at highest risk of being automated?, what steps she is taking to help ensure that automation does not increase (a) gender pay inequality and (b) unemployment among women. Helen Hayes: [240044] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Office for National Statistics’ estimate that jobs held by people aged 20-24 are most at risk of automation, what plans he has to ensure young people are able to access employment in the future. Kelly Tolhurst: The Industrial Strategy sets out the Government’s vision to make the UK a global centre for AI and data innovation, alongside measures to ensure our people are equipped to capitalise on those opportunities. Many of the 1.5 million jobs identified by Office for National Statistics (ONS) will be transformed, rather than destroyed. Automation can have beneficial impacts for the existing workforce; enabling workers to upskill, achieve better-quality work and become more productive. The ONS estimate also overlooks the considerable opportunity for creation of new, highly-skilled employment