Submitted on Wednesday 19th October 2016
Rejected on Wednesday 26th October 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Make it illegal for the PM to not answer questions during PMQ.
The weekly PMQ session in parliament is a prime time for the nation to learn the PM's views on a wide range of subjects. Yet when the PM ignores questions posed, instead using the time to launch cheap political attacks, democracy suffers. Make it illegal to evade questions at PMQ.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can't accept your petition in its current form as it does not call for a clear action from the UK Parliament and Government. For example, your petition doesn't specify who should decide whether the Prime Minister has given an acceptable answer to a question, or how an acceptable answer would be defined.
In any case, the rules of the House of Commons are not usually set out in law. You could start a new petition calling for the rules of the House to be changed, to give an individual or body the power to intervene if an answer to a parliamentary question does not meet an agreed standard. For example, in the past we have accepted a petition calling for the Speaker to have this power:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/118388
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