Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the impact on jobs of increasing automation, what steps they are taking to (1) assess new types of work which may arise, (2) stimulate new businesses, and (3) encourage the adjustment of workplace training, to accommodate new technologies.

It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.