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I will say a few words about Australia and whether age verification can work. The Australian eSafety Commissioner said a couple of weeks ago that the reason a number of children still have accounts there is simply because the social media companies are not doing their jobs properly, and it is now moving to enforcement. As the right honourable Liz Kendall said yesterday, in this country we would propose highly effective age verification, as is working for pornography, as opposed to the weaker Australian reasonable steps. Many countries are also moving to a similar approach to this, and the social media companies have admitted that this can be done if they put their minds to it, so this concern is unfounded.