Question follow-through · 118761
Magistrates
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of aligning the legal age to become a magistrate with the lower voting age.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 9 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 18 Mar 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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- Juries: Age · 1 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
9 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of aligning the legal age to become a magistrate with the lower voting age.
11 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Government has no current plans to review the minimum age to become a magistrate.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Juries: Age
1 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to reduce the age for jury service to 16 to align with the lower voting age.