Question follow-through · 1639
Children: Mobile Phones
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she will take steps to regulate smartphone use for children.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 25 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 29 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 1 Aug 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she will take steps to regulate smartphone use for children.
29 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Aug 2024
Answer published
In February 2024, the department published non-statutory guidance for schools on how to develop, implement and maintain a policy that prohibits the use of mobile phones throughout the school day. As has been the longstanding policy of successive governmen...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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