| Heading: |
Elections: Young People |
| Question ID: |
1791415 |
| UIN: |
HL6431 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-01 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5019 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Jamieson
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Lord Jamieson
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the evidential or methodological basis for having a higher candidacy age than voting age under their plans to lower the latter to 16; and what assessment they have made of the capacity of 16 and 17 year-olds in the |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-10 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4956 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Taylor of Stevenage
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| Answering Member handle: |
SharonStevenage
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@SharonStevenage
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| Answer text: |
Pursuant to previous debate [Column 569 Volume 844] where this issue was raised, the Government was elected on a manifesto promising to give 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all UK elections, strengthening our democracy and increasing the engagem... |
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| Answering body ID: |
7 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Tweeted: |
true |