Speaking in Parliament on behalf of the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, Conservative MP for Gosport, Peter Viggers, said the commission had told him it had no plans to make a new assessment of lowering the voting age.
Viggers was responding to questions from John Robertson, Labour MP for Glasgow North West, who had asked what assessment the commission had made of lowering the voting age to attract more voters. Viggers said a 2004 report produced by the Electoral Commission had said it would revisit the case for lowering the voting age within five to seven years.
"Following its recent refocus on the twin objectives of regulating party and election finance and delivering well-run elections, the commission is unlikely to proceed with such a review," he said. "The Electoral Commission takes the view that it is for government and Parliament to decide such matters."
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