Question follow-through · 37324
Voting Rights: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will ensure that Northern Ireland is included in legislative proposals to lower the voting age for UK elections.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Northern Ireland Office
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will ensure that Northern Ireland is included in legislative proposals to lower the voting age for UK elections.
13 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2025
Answer published
This Government will legislate to lower the voting age to 16 during this Parliament for all non-devolved elections across the UK, including elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly and Northern Ireland local government elections.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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