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Let the Speaker make Ministers answer questions that they have not answered.

Submitted on Wednesday 6th January 2016

Rejected on Tuesday 12th January 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

Petition Action

Let the Speaker make Ministers answer questions that they have not answered.

Petition Details

Give the Speaker of the House of Commons the power to direct Ministers to answer the questions put to them by MPs during the course of Parliamentary business e.g. Prime Minister’s Questions.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Ministers already provide responses to parliamentary questions. We think that your petition is asking for the Speaker to have powers to decide whether or not an answer given by a Minister is acceptable, and to require them to provide a further response.

If that is the case, you could start a new petition asking more clearly for the change that you would like to see, and explaining specifically how it might work (for example, what criteria you believe the Speaker should use in deciding whether or not a question had been adequately answered).

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