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If you want to change the rules so that objections to Private Members' Bills need to be seconded, you may wish to sign this petition instead: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/222338

You may be interested to know that a group of MPs called the House of Commons Procedure Committee looked at the rules for Private Members Bills in 2016. You can read its report and recommendations here:

publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmselect/cmproced/684/68402.htm

You can watch MPs debate the Committee’s report on Parliament TV:

http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/9ff57b89-d23c-44a7-85a3-5a9872c0ed31?in=16:02:20

You can read the debate on the Committee’s report here:

hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-04-18/debates/16041810000002/PrivateMembers%E2%80%99Bills

You can find out more about the different stages of a bill on the Parliament website:

http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/laws/passage-bill/