PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Mental Health: Social Media (29 November 2016)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has met representatives of any social media companies to discuss the effect of social media on child and adolescent mental health.
Asked by:
Chris Elmore (Labour)
Asked by:
Chris Elmore (Labour)
Answer
My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health has met with a range of technology companies. These meetings have covered a number of broad issues and have included some discussion around social media. A list of ministerial visits by Ministers from the Department is available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-overseas-travel-and-meetings
The internet, keeping children safe online, promoting and protecting their mental health are areas of great concern not just to this Department but across Government as a whole; with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport leading on the policy of social media.
Answered by:
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Conservative)
7 December 2016
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