Backbench Business — Voting Age

Part of Bill Presented — Marriage (Same Sex Couples) – in the House of Commons at 1:54 pm on 24 January 2013.

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Photo of Chloe Smith Chloe Smith The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office 1:54, 24 January 2013

I thank the hon. Gentleman for pressing that point, and I will come on to deal with the fact that we do not have a single age of majority in this country. Hon. Members on all sides have debated whether we ought to have a single age and what it should be, and the debate has covered both axes of the argument. I was taken by the point made by Mark Durkan—we should not be protecting young people from democracy.