Part of 4. Questions to the Assembly Commission – in the Senedd at 3:43 pm on 11 March 2020.
Thank you for the question. Yes, you're perfectly correct that the expert panel was very strong in its view that political education alongside the right to vote were two equally important measures to take in enabling young people to take part in the democratic process. The Commission is working with the Welsh Government, the Electoral Commission and others, but in particular, in this aspect of resources available to schools, to develop with Welsh Government resources that will be available as of September, the September term, to enable those 16 and 17-year-olds that are in school to access the most up-to-date information on their new right to vote at 16 and 17, remembering, of course, that not all young people with that new right will be in a school setting—also in a college setting and also in work settings—and we need to make sure that everybody is as equally empowered to know of their new right and how to exercise that right.