Speeches by Voaden.

“But you could access it if you were pretending to be over 16.”

“An expert recently advised parents that they should be with their children at all times while they were on Roblox, because it is not a safe platform for young people, in the opinion of that expert. How would you answer that?”

“I will come back to you on something you said in a minute, but let’s go to Professor Etchells.”

“I was going to ask you about the benefits of having a legislative ban on phones in schools. The Government moved on that yesterday. Do you think a statutory ban in legislation will have a positive effect on children’s health and wellbeing?”

“And Laura?”

“It is about the peer pressure not to have a phone rather than to have one.”

“I would like to move on to talk about a ban. Obviously, that conversation has been led by Australia going first, but Governments across the world are now waking up to the dangers of social media and discussing how they are going to introduce a ban. Would you agree that the failure of companies like yours to adequately …”

“Would you like to add anything, Professor Goodyear?”

“So there is no incentive to increase the amount of time someone spends on Instagram/Meta?”

“What are you doing to reduce addiction?”

“Do you think ban is the right word? It is an interesting word, isn’t it, because we don’t allow children to go into nightclubs because they would be exposed to alcohol and other harms, and we don’t allow children to drive a car or to smoke, but we do not call it a ban. We do not say that 14-year-olds are banned from go…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (David Chadwick) for securing this debate and allowing me time to speak in it. The National Audit Office report published earlier this year tells a story of a scheme under serious strain. App…”

“I have spoken to lots of headteachers who are campaigning for a statutory ban on smartphones in schools. They say that if all the secondary schools in an area were to ban phones, children would not get smartphones at 11, when they transfer into year 7, and the age at which they would get a smartphone goes up to about 1…”

“Are the Government evaluating the difference between the cost of paying Access to Work at a higher rate, so that people can actually get the support they need, and the cost of them being on universal credit if they are unable to work?”

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“I believe we are talking about two different things. On banning social media for under-16s, there is a complication there. We have seen what they have done in Australia, and what other countries are doing. We believe that our solution is the right one, because it is future-proof and would encompass every platform, ever…”

“My follow-up is to you, Ruth, and you have begun to touch on it there. We know that there are many families who are distrustful of public services and of Government, who might not want to respond or participate in surveys. Is there anything that the Government could learn from the work you have done with Changing Reali…”

“This is a question for Margaret and Daniel. The reforms introduce new SEND training for the education workforce. I was wondering whether you could give us an idea of what you think the most urgent priority is for training and the challenges that you see around that.”

“You took the words out of my mouth. I was going to follow up by saying that we could have the best trained teachers in the world, but, if they are on their own in a class without sufficient support, do you believe that making mainstream education inclusive is even possible? Surely it is down to the number of adults who…”

“Margaret, would you like to tell us what you think about training?”