Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Lloyd of Effra on 19 March (HL15262), which individuals attended the meeting of academic, researchers and other experts chaired by Dame Angela McLean in February to consider the objectives and methodologies for the pilots announced as part of the Growing up in the online world consultation.

Dame Angela McLean drew on expertise from inside and outside government to gather advice on how best to pilot policy options relating to young people’s use of social media.

Following standard procedure for a meeting of this kind, the names of the attendees will be published in due course by the Government Office for Science. This may be after the government responds to the consultation.