Submitted on Tuesday 6th September 2011
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Petitions with over 100,000 signatures to be guaranteed a parliamentary debate
Currently, petitions which gain 100,000 signatures are offered only "consideration" for parliamentary debate. I propose a new parliamentary rule, or law - if necessary, is adopted such that any petition that is signed by more than 100,000 citizens should be guaranteed a parliamentary debate.
Problems of potential time wasting can be addressed by allowing any Member of the House to propose a motion to cut-short the debate at any time, thereby allowing debates to be abandoned if the majority of the house wish.
However, I feel it is important for democracy that the House, and not the government of the day, should have the ultimate decision over whether a debate should proceed. I propose the best way of making this happen is to guarantee that a debate will commence for every petition that reaches 100,000 signatures.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
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