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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 23 June 2025

Debate

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Contribution

It is not as if we do not know the effects of exposure to social media from smartphones. Rachel Sylvester, when presenting the Times commission’s report, expressed her absolute shock at the increasing role of social media in encouraging dysfunction and criminality among the young. The commission highlighted the risk of radicalisation of our children by exposure to social media. A fifth of those arrested for terrorism offences last year were children.

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