Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

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 that ban in Wales and Scotland is the responsibility of those devolved administrations.

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 consultation announcement to inform them of the upcoming consultation and to welcome their views.

The consultation will be accompanied by a national conversation, and we want to hear from children and parents right across the UK, including in the devolved administrations. Every voice matters in shaping what comes next.