<p>Politics and Current Affairs in Schools</p>

Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 3:29 pm on 6 July 2016.

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Photo of Julie Morgan Julie Morgan Labour 3:29, 6 July 2016

I thank the Cabinet Secretary for that response. In the recent EU referendum, 73 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds voted to remain in the EU. However, only 43 per cent of those eligible to vote actually voted, and that’s compared to the overall turnout of 72 per cent. Actually, during the Assembly elections, I met the only voter in Cardiff who turned 18 on the day of the election, and she went to vote. But she told me that she and her friends just felt they didn’t have enough information about politics and choices, and what you could do via democracy, in schools. So, is there anything further that she thinks could be done to encourage young people to recognise how important the voting process is, and what sort of decisions can be made?