Voting Rights: Young People
(asked on 22nd November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of reducing the voting age to sixteen.
This question was answered on 22nd November 2017
The Government has no plans to lower the voting age, but welcomes the ongoing discussions about this issue. This House has repeatedly debated and then voted against lowering the voting age. Only a handful of countries worldwide allow 16 year olds to vote.