Member

I support this amendment. I say to the noble Lord, Lord Addington, that it is really important to be mindful of people with special educational needs, but I have one caution. Although I am young enough to remember my introduction, I am old enough to have worked in augmentative communication clinics at Great Ormond Street over a 15-year period. In those days, devices were not in your smartphone; they got gradually smaller and smaller, but they remained augmentative communication devices, so it is possible not to have them as part of a smartphone. We need to be really careful about where it needs to be a smartphone and where it does not. I take the point about diabetics, but we must be very wary. A lot of young people with ADHD could say that they need their smartphone to organise themselves. Where are the edges? It should be exceptional rather than undermining the foundation of what we are trying to achieve.