Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 35919

Pupils: Mobile Phones

Tabled: 5 March 2025
Answered: 17 April 2025

Question

Bradley Thomas

ConservativeBromsgrove

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2025 to Question 29183 on Smartphones, what research she refers to.

Answer

Stephen Morgan
Mobile phone and smartphone development and social media use has increased (Ofcom, 2024) alongside increasing mental health problems in children and young people (NHS England, 2023), which has raised concerns amongst academics that the two are linked. The...

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