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Social Media: Children

Asked by Sir Mark HendrickLabour (Co-op)Department for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled Answered 15 July 2026UIN 16371

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will take steps to ensure that the planned social media ban for under-16s will have robust blocks in place to avoid circumvention.

Answered by Kanishka Narayan

The Government is committed to ensuring that the new social media restrictions are effective in practice and deliver meaningful protections for children. Through the ‘Growing up in the Online World’ consultation, the government sought views and evidence on circumvention and the measures that could be used to address it.

The Government is carefully considering the consultation responses and will set out its approach to addressing circumvention in its full response shortly.

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