| Heading: |
Gambling: Pupils |
| Question ID: |
1801594 |
| UIN: |
HL7350 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-09 |
| Asking Member ID: |
214 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Foster of Bath
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Lord Foster of Bath
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what recent assessment they have made of the appropriateness of gambling-related content on the online programming platform Scratch which is used by children in schools. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-30 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
269 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Smith of Malvern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Smith of Malvern
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| Answer text: |
The department does not support or mandate individual products. Schools should follow the statutory guidance ‘Keeping children safe in education’, supported by the department’s filtering and monitoring standards. Schools should monitor pupils’ use of devi... |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |