Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 40701

Social Media: Children

Tabled: 24 March 2025

Answered: 1 April 2025

Question

Gregor Poynton

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to ensure that social media companies effectively enforce their terms of service to prevent children below the required minimum age from accessing them.

Answer

Feryal Clark

Child online safety is of utmost importance to the government. Under the Online Safety Act, all user-to-user services likely to be accessed by children have a duty to include provisions in their terms of service specifying how children of any age are prev...

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