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Abolish the practice of MPs preventing passage of a Private Member's Bill.

Submitted on Friday 8th February 2019

Rejected on Monday 25th February 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Abolish the practice of MPs preventing passage of a Private Member's Bill.

Petition Details

Recent private member's bills have been halted by an MP shouting object.This can destroy months of hard work and delay very important reforms. Recent examples were bills in respect of female genital mutilation and "upskirting". The existing procedure is an anachronism and it needs to be stopped


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There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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