Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 3:39 pm on 15 January 2013.
Although there are certain issues about giving 16 and 17-year-olds the vote, there is a quite simple solution to the point raised by the hon. Lady. The names of under-16s should not be made available on a published register or on any register until a few weeks before the referendum period. There are ways of getting round the difficulty.