Constitutional Law

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 3:39 pm on 15 January 2013.

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Photo of Mark Lazarowicz Mark Lazarowicz Labour, Edinburgh North and Leith 3:39, 15 January 2013

The answer is simple: the franchise is the same for local and Scottish parliamentary elections. Any choice of franchise will have anomalies, but is it not sensible to make the franchise for the referendum the same as for Scottish parliamentary elections?