Social Media: Children
Lords · Question HL13817 · Tabled 21 Jan 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Official record
Answered 4 Feb 2026
Question
Asked by Lord Wigley
To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with (1) the Welsh Government, and (2) the Scottish Government, about restricting or banning children from accessing social media; and what assessment they have made of the extent to which tha
Answer
Answered by Baroness Lloyd of Effra, 4 Feb 2026
The majority of the Online Safety Act extends and applies to the whole of the United Kingdom, and most measures in the government’s consultation on children’s use of social media will too. The Government wrote to the devolved administrations ahead of the ...