Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that the scope of the proposed ban on social media companies for children under 16 can respond to changes in (a) the services used by children, (b) the risks posed by those services and (c) the safety measures implemented by service providers.

The government announced in June that we would ban social media companies from offering their services to under 16s. This means capturing user to user platforms, whose purpose is to enable social interaction, and which allow users to post material alongside algorithms. The department is currently working through the details and the final scope criteria will be set out in the regulations that will be laid in Parliament.