Damian Hinds: To be fair to the Minister and previous Ministers, I think they do make efforts to hear from young people.

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Ecosystems: UK Online Safety Act

To be fair to the Minister and previous Ministers, I think they do make efforts to hear from young people. An interesting survey by the Youth Endowment Fund, which I commend to the hon. Lady and others, put an extreme proposition to 13 to 17-year-olds: “If you could turn off social media forever for you and everybody else, would you do it?” While a majority did not say yes to that extreme proposition, something like a third did. We also have various other surveys. It is true that when we talk to children, as I am sure many colleagues have done in schools across their constituencies, we get a v

To be fair to the Minister and previous Ministers, I think they do make efforts to hear from young people. An interesting survey by the Youth Endowment Fund, which I commend to the hon. Lady and others, put an extreme proposition to 13 to 17-year-olds: “If you could turn off social media forever for you and everybody else, would you do it?” While a majority did not say yes to that extreme proposition, something like a third did. We also have various other surveys. It is true that when we talk to children, as I am sure many colleagues have done in schools across their constituencies, we get a v…

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