Member

I share the noble Lord’s diagnosis: we are facing a children’s mental health catastrophe, with young people exposed to misogyny, violence and addictive algorithms. I welcome the noble Lord’s bringing this critical issue before the House and strongly support his proposal for a default minimum age of 16. After 20 years of profiteering from our children’s attention, we need a reset. The voices of young people themselves are impossible to ignore. At the same time, tens of thousands of parents have reached out to us all, just in the past week, calling to raise the age—we cannot let them down.