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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 21 January 2026
Debate
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools BillContribution
I could cover many other things. There is just one thing I would like to talk about extremely briefly, which is this point that my noble friend’s amendment would put pressure on parents and children. I really think that it would finally align commercial incentive with the law. If you lose 25% of your clients, you work out what you are going to do differently to keep them. The one thing that they could do tomorrow is to improve age verification, change the algorithms and make these places safe. Then we can benefit from the apparent opportunities for children that exist online. That argument, which was less explored, can also be rebutted.
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