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UIN 37325
Voting Rights: Northern Ireland
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11 March 2025
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19 March 2025 · Answer
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19 March 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to include a legislative consent motion with legislative proposals to lower the voting age to allow 16 and 17 year olds in Northern Ireland to vote in (a) As
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11 March 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to include a legislative consent motion with legislative proposals to lower the voting age to allow 16 and 17 year olds in Northern Ireland to vote in (a) As
Source: Commons
19 March 2025
Answer
The Government has given a clear commitment to lower the voting age to 16 at all non-devolved elections, which includes Assembly and local elections in Northern Ireland. As elections are an excepted matter under Schedule 2 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-03-11/37325
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1783445
- uk · wq-1783445 · source updated 19 March 2025