Speeches by Irons.

“Your content isn’t, but the platform that you put it on has been found to be so. Your walled garden of Sky Kids on Sky—your Sky platforms—I am sure has been created to the highest possible standards, but whether you are using it as a marketing tool or not, the content is on a platform that has been found to be intentio…”

“I suppose the question is, given everything you have done—and, as you acknowledge, it is still not safe—why are people still trying to sue you?”

“That is the point, isn’t it? Again, this is about young people’s content, where they find it and where they migrate to consume it. We can all accept that there are benefits to that and that groups can form, but we are talking about how we keep them safe and prevent the harms. I couldn’t really get to this point: are yo…”

“Who determines what is misinformation on your platform?”

“Just so you are aware, your content is on the non-logged-in bit as well. If you go on to just the website, which is next to the slop and next to whatever else it may be, it is also there. The point that we are trying to make, I feel, is that broadcasters are jumping through hoops and doing the right thing when it comes…”

“Can I ask Rebecca the same question? Do you have that figure?”

“The point I am making is that although where you can control things, you are producing these things to the highest possible safety standards, you are being encouraged to put more content on to a place that you do not control and has been found to have been designed to be intentionally addictive. Do you think that the G…”

“What about a crazy AI video of something that did not happen but is not necessarily a news report? Who is checking that?”

“TikTok settled, so maybe—I don’t know—there is an admission that TikTok has an addictive algorithm, but isn’t the behaviour that we are talking about, with young people trying to get around this, demonstrating addiction? Is it not proving the point that your services are not particularly good for children’s wellbeing i…”

“I thank the Minister for her tireless work and campaigning on this issue, both in this place and in our community of Croydon. I know that this moral mission is personal to her, but given her experience, does she agree that tackling knife crime requires a whole-system approach bringing together policing, schools, health…”

“How do we help, basically?”

“I guess the question is—and it is for Meta as well; thank you for being here, and I am not trying to ignore you—who is responsible for content on your platforms? I appreciate that they are user-to-user generated, but even if it is participation videos showing that and helping to stoke and encourage others to join in, o…”

“Who am I to tell you how to do anything in your business, but surely part of the negotiation with a teenager to have an account could be, “You need to have this linked to a parent.” Thirty-five might be a bit too high, but surely you can do things to ensure that it is not basically like sticking seatbelts in your car a…”

“To pick up on some of these points on the makeup of safety advisory groups and who gets to sit on them, our predecessor Committee made a recommendation that there should be a wider variety of people that sit on SAGs, including community groups or people with local knowledge. Have you seen evidence of that happening?”

“Should there be more prescription as to who should be on the boards? Should there be stronger guidance or direction of who should be on them?”

“There was a discussion earlier about trying not to have a strategy that is UK-wide that interrupts what you are doing and what Wales is doing, and they are clearly successful in their own right and any strategy should not undo what is working. However, if we have a clear measure and we are all looking at the same thing…”

“I want to talk about the eventsIMPACT toolkit. Can you explain what the benefits are of using that?”

“Does it inform decision-making and planning programmes?”

“Are you able to look at the community legacy of events?”

“What are the top three lessons that the UK Government can take from that when we are looking at legacy, when we are looking at not just having an event, but what it can do for communities afterwards or, as you said, in the lead up to those things?”