The app, once installed on a phone, allows you to oversee which apps your child has access to, limit the contacts that your child can have on the phone, and lets parents allocate specific amounts of time to game playing.

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Speaking on BBC One's Question Time programme, he said the government "has to allocate the resources" if there is a need for more places.

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Councils allocate housing on the basis of need, with those considered to have low priority potentially waiting a very long time to get a property.

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