Deputy Prime Minister written question – answered at on 4 December 2012.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister
(1) what recent representations he has received on lowering the voting age to 16;
(2) what recent research he has (a) undertaken and (b) commissioned on lowering the voting age to 16.
Records show that in the past 12 months 67 representations were received by the Cabinet Office on the issue of lowering the voting age, the majority being letters from school students doing project work as part of their Citizenship GCSE.
Cabinet Office has not undertaken or commissioned any recent research on the issue.
There is no consensus within Government for lowering the voting age to 16 and we therefore have no current plans to do so.
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