Question follow-through · 9477
Voting Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of retaining the electoral franchise in its current form.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 24 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of retaining the electoral franchise in its current form.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2024
Answer published
The government was elected on a manifesto commitment to extend the franchise to 16–17-year-olds, and we intend to deliver on that commitment.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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