Question follow-through · 39810
Artificial Intelligence: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department (a) monitors and (b) regulates the use of AI in apps aimed at children and teenagers.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 19 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 28 Mar 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department (a) monitors and (b) regulates the use of AI in apps aimed at children and teenagers.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Online Safety Act places new duties on both user-to-user and search services. The strongest protections in the Act are for children, who will be protected from both illegal content, and legal content which is nonetheless harmful to children (including...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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