Ms Claire McEvoy:

There is one that I am aware of – Sweden - but I was going to say Iceland, Denmark, Norway, the Czech Republic and Finland were all at 15. Italy and Spain are at 14. It is out of touch with both our human rights obligations and the norms in our fellow liberal democracies within Europe. For those two reasons, we feel it is essential that the age be raised. It is about a legal obligation under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.