Question follow-through · 19502
Social Media: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential risk of the proposed under-16 social media ban increasing children's exposure to misogynist and extremist rhetoric through migration to unre
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- Answering body
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 16 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 23 Sept 2026 · 69 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential risk of the proposed under-16 social media ban increasing children's exposure to misogynist and extremist rhetoric through migration to unre
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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23 Sept 2026
Answer published
Tackling violence against women and girls remains a top priority for this government. The banning of social media companies from offering their services to under-16s will help provide additional protections for children. Alongside this, the former Secreta...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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