HC Deb 12 February 2002 vol 380 c179W
Bob Spink

To ask the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, if he will make a statement on the Commission's plans for changing the minimum age of voting. [34047]

Mr. Beith

I understand from the Chairman of the Electoral Commission that the Commission has no such plans but does intend to look in due course at the minimum voting age as part of its review programme of electoral law and practice. Any change would require legislation.