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'Vote at 16' move backed by SNP 'Vote at 16' move backed by SNP
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Proposals to lower the voting age to 16 have been unanimously backed at the SNP annual conference.Proposals to lower the voting age to 16 have been unanimously backed at the SNP annual conference.
The move has carried strong support among party members, although powers to alter the age, currently set at 18, are reserved to Westminster.The move has carried strong support among party members, although powers to alter the age, currently set at 18, are reserved to Westminster.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has already called for a debate on whether 16-year-olds should have a vote.Prime Minister Gordon Brown has already called for a debate on whether 16-year-olds should have a vote.
But the conference, the SNP's first since its election win, called for voting powers to be handed to Holyrood.But the conference, the SNP's first since its election win, called for voting powers to be handed to Holyrood.
Delegates in Aviemore also unanimously backed a resolution welcoming the SNP administration's "national conversation" white paper on the country's constitutional future.Delegates in Aviemore also unanimously backed a resolution welcoming the SNP administration's "national conversation" white paper on the country's constitutional future.
CONFERENCE AGENDA, DAY TWO 1000 BST - Conference resumes1030 - Resolutions on independence and voting at 161130 - Donaldson Lecture, Rob Brown and Stephen Maxwell1215 - President's Prize1400 - Topical and emergency resolutions1430 - Resolutions on writers¿ museum, broadcasting, terror laws, Scottish civil service, council bylaws to ban air guns and sexual offences against children1510 - Speech by Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon1540 - Resolutions CONFERENCE AGENDA, DAY TWO 1000 BST - Conference resumes1030 - Resolutions on independence and voting at 161130 - Donaldson Lecture, Rob Brown and Stephen Maxwell1215 - President's Prize1400 - Topical and emergency resolutions1430 - Resolutions on writers museum, broadcasting, terror laws, Scottish civil service, council bylaws to ban air guns and sexual offences against children1510 - Speech by Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon1540 - Resolutions
The conference has also been debating proposals to give health workers greater protection from attacks. In other debates, a motion urging a ban on airguns in Scotland was passed unanimously.
It is also due to consider motions on setting up a Scottish civil service and devolving powers over broadcasting to the Scottish Parliament. The conference noted that airgun attacks injured 143 people in Scotland last year and 675 of the 1,245 firearms offences involved air weapons.
The party will also debate giving councils powers to restrict the ownership of airguns. Also, MP Pete Wishart called for control of broadcasting to be passed from Westminster to Scotland.
Mr Wishart, the Nationalist broadcasting spokesman, said power over this area should "never ever" have been reserved to London.
He told the conference: "The continued London control of Scottish broadcasting has been an unmitigated disaster for Scottish broadcasting, what we have seen is erosion of jobs and skills, decline in our infrastructure and decline in our market share and programming."
A resolution demanding that broadcasting cease to be a reserved power was passed by the conference, as was a motion welcoming plans by the Scottish Government to create a separate Scottish civil service.