Science, Innovation and Technology Committee — hearing of 24 June 2026: transcript & video

17:31 - 19:18

Speaker 1

Order, order, and welcome to today's meeting of the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee. Now, I want to thank all our witnesses and indeed our committee members and clerks and staff who are here in Westminster in our soaring temperatures, our heatwave today. And I want to underline and emphasize, firstly, that gentlemen and others can take off jackets. And secondly, that there is, if there is a need or a for a break or any concerns, please raise them and we can always suspend the session if we cannot deal with the temperatures.

So this is the second session in our inquiry into neuroscience and digital childhoods. We have heard worrying evidence from neuroscientists about the lack of robust causal evidence for the impact of digital devices on children and young people. And today we're hearing from those who work closely with children about their perspectives on the impact of digital devices, their views on the evidence gap and how policymakers should move ahead even in the absence of clear evidence.

Now, in our first panel, we are very pleased to welcome Ravi Iyer, a researcher who is part of the Anxious Generation movement. Ravi comes to us from Boston, where I think it's 4:30 in the morning or something, so you may not be dealing with the heat, but you're certainly going to be dealing with the time difference. So we really appreciate you joining us, and I am going to hand over to Alison for our first question.

19:18 - 19:19

Speaker 2

Thank you, Ravi.

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