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“I will ask you to write to us because we will be writing to our constituents who will be very interested to hear. Thank you.”

“I am sure you do read the data that you see from, for example, the Ofcom research. The BBC has some research that suggests really quite large numbers of children under that age are watching YouTube.”

“Okay. For 13 to 17-year-olds—I have children of this age, but I had to look this up—I gather you need a thing called Google Family Link, is that right? Is that the main way that you have some control? What proportion of 13 to 17-year-olds’ parents are using Google Family Link set to, I think, “Explore more”? Therefore,…”

“Do we know what proportion of families are using some form of these controls, given that it is complicated and there are multiple systems? You might have an Apple device and a Samsung device and a PC, and you might have three children of three different ages and all the rest of it. Who actually manages to do some of th…”

“Thank you.”

“It is off by default, not disabled?”

“Okay, thank you.”

“Thank you very much. Just on this thing about the system inferring the age of the child. It is true, though, is it not, that there are literally hundreds of thousands of children in this country who have an apparent digital age higher than their actual age? We know that from Ofcom research and other research. Can I ask…”

“Okay. Thank you.”

“Come on. This is an inquiry about children’s television. You are the largest provider in the world of that service. We are asking how much of the stuff that you brand as content Made for Kids is from brands, companies or producers who we, the people in the street, and you, through your greenlisting process, would say i…”

“Okay, so we are back to my original question before you started talking about how much is greenlisted. My question is does somebody have to watched that programme. So if I see a thing that says Made for Kids on YouTube, do I know that either somebody at the BBC or Channel 5 or whatever, or somebody at YouTube, has watc…”

“That is all I needed to know. So basically, it is an automated system, presumably, which looks for bad content.”

“Okay. You think there is nobody under 13 watching YouTube regular?”

“Why have you not given a plug for Google Classroom, by the way?”

“Come on.”

“I meant reorganisation costs.”

“As with many projections, some things are more uncertain than others. Typically, in business, revenues are really hard to project, but costs are a lot easier. Can the Minister share with us what the costs of the reorganisation are anticipated to be?”

“Yeah!”

“I was asking you about whether it is on YouTube Kids or the normal platform, and I have asked you a couple of times now, specifically, about things that are branded or marked as Made for Kids.”

“Speaking of writing to us, I do not expect you to have an answer to this one right now but there is an ad campaign that, Garth, you may have seen since you have been in the UK, including in the Westminster underground station of late, which says that something like 83% of parents think that YouTube helps—your PR team w…”