Proceeding contribution from Patrick Grady (Scottish National Party) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 20 April 2017. It occurred during Select Committee statement on EU Referendum: Lessons Learned.
EU Referendum: Lessons Learned
Was there any discussion in the Committee about the franchise for the referendum? If 16 and 17-year-olds and EU citizens had been allowed to vote, we might have had a very different result. They will be allowed to vote in the Scottish council elections in two weeks, but they will be denied a vote in the UK general election about four weeks after that. Would it not be appropriate to have consistency, and for the franchise to be as wide as possible?
Secondary information
- Type
- Proceeding contribution
- Reference
- 624 c819
- Session
- 2016-17
- Chamber / Committee
- House of Commons chamber
- Subjects
- Codes of practice Applications Administration Civil service ICT Referendums Security Regulation UK membership of EU
- Legislation
- Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000
- Link
- View this Proceeding contribution on hansard.parliament.uk
Librarians' tools
- Timestamp
- 2019-08-05 10:12:47 +0100
- URI
- http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2017-04-20/17042014000457
- In Indexing
- http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2017-04-20/17042014000457
- In Solr
- https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2017-04-20/17042014000457