{"id":50068,"date":"2014-11-11T15:33:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T15:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=de5bd2ee621b20d0205735f616588c7a"},"modified":"2014-11-11T15:33:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T15:33:20","slug":"press-release-wales-bill-amendments-to-give-welsh-assembly-powers-to-determine-voting-age-in-income-tax-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=50068","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Wales Bill amendments to give Welsh Assembly powers to determine voting age in income tax referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Stephen Crabb today (11 November) stressed his determination to work with the Welsh Government to help secure new income tax raising powers for the Welsh Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Crabb said he was committed to removing any obstacles that may prevent the Welsh Government from making full use of the new financial powers on offer.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Crabb said the UK Government would bring forward amendments to the Wales Bill to give the power to the Welsh Assembly to determine whether 16 and 17 year-olds should have the right to vote in an income tax referendum.<\/p>\n<p>The amendments will be debated in the House of Lords during the third reading of the Bill on 24 November.<\/p>\n<p>If approved, it would mean that the Assembly can decide whether 16 and 17 year-olds in Wales can vote in a referendum on new income tax powers.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"secretary-of-state-for-wales-stephen-crabb-said\">Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb said:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>New income tax powers are a valuable tool to help the Welsh economy become more dynamic and make the Welsh Government more accountable. I want to make sure that the Welsh Government gets these new powers.<\/p>\n<p>I know that there are strongly held views on allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to vote in a referendum but I have listened to the views in the House of Lords and decided that this is a matter on which the Assembly should decide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The Assembly has the power to call an income tax referendum \u2013 and it is right that they decide the age of those who can vote on this issue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb: \u201cI want the Welsh Government to get new tax raising powers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}