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HANSARDSocial Media Use: Minimum AgeThe Minister speaks with a great deal of knowledge and authority, particularly on acquired brain injury, but I want to come back to the covid point. Obviously, a Westminster Hall…24 Feb 2025HANSARDSocial Media Use: Minimum AgeThe Minister would be making perfectly adequate points if we were talking only about this country. We could make all sorts of points about what Government policy was and what…24 Feb 2025HANSARDSocial Media Use: Minimum AgeI think the Minister takes my point.24 Feb 2025HANSARDConsumer Protection: FraudIt was disappointing to see in the January figures that fraud has risen again after it had been coming down, but I commend the Government for proceeding with the Payment Services…24 Feb 2025HANSARDSocial Media Use: Minimum AgeI know I am going on for way too long, Mr Stringer.24 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)If the hon. Member has counter-examples, let us hear them.11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I rise to speak in favour of the new clause. Unusually, I will start by saying what the new clause will not do, and the limits of the change it proposes. The truth is that the…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)There have now been four waves of updates from the children and young people’s mental ill health prevalence survey conducted by the NHS. That invaluable resource has provided…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I have been trying to exercise my best patience as the Minister entreated me to do. I think he is saying that it will never be possible to know, in reality, what the effect of…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Does the Minister not accept that there is a fundamental difference between a projection of what is expected to happen and the reporting on what has actually happened? It is the…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Can the hon. Member please explain what she means?11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)The hon. Lady is quite right. I was only going to speak about this for three minutes or so, but the hon. Gentleman tempted me into other areas. On the promise that he was making…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)We can have the classic, “Oh, the wording is technically flawed” argument—which to be fair to the Government, they have not deployed in this Bill Committee yet. We hope the…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I appreciate what the hon. Gentleman says. I had my most recent constituency session with parents on the matter last Friday, and with some things, there is a bit of a grey area.…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am very grateful—11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)You cannot intervene on an intervention.11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)On that promise, I will give way.11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am grateful to my hon. Friend the shadow Minister for refocusing what I was saying, and he is absolutely right. Some of our worries in relation to children apply regardless of…11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)This is in danger of turning into a much longer speech than I anticipated.11 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Thirteenth sitting)School uniform guidance?11 Feb 2025