Question follow-through · 9692
Social Media: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she will conduct and publish a Data Protection Impact Assessment and any other relevant impact assessments before the social ban for under 16s comes into force.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 15 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 17 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she will conduct and publish a Data Protection Impact Assessment and any other relevant impact assessments before the social ban for under 16s comes into force.
17 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jun 2026
Answer published
We will not be conducting a Data Protection Impact Assessment as part of making regulations for the social media ban, since we will not be processing any personal data in the course of that work. We will conduct and publish other relevant impact assessmen...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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