| Heading: |
Social Media: Children |
| Question ID: |
1787749 |
| UIN: |
40701 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5167 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Gregor Poynton
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| Asking Member handle: |
gregorpoynton
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@gregorpoynton
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to ensure that social media companies effectively enforce their terms of service to prevent children below the required minimum age from accessing them. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-01 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4822 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Feryal Clark
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| Answering Member handle: |
FeryalClark
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@FeryalClark
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| Answer text: |
Child online safety is of utmost importance to the government. Under the Online Safety Act, all user-to-user services likely to be accessed by children have a duty to include provisions in their terms of service specifying how children of any age are prev... |
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| Answering body ID: |
216 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology |
| Tweeted: |
true |