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Abolish The Vagrancy Act 1824 to stop sleeping rough on the streets illegal.

Submitted on Tuesday 25th June 2019

Rejected on Wednesday 3rd July 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Abolish The Vagrancy Act 1824 to stop sleeping rough on the streets illegal.

Petition Details

There are people getting arrested just for being so poor that they do not have a home to live in.

Additional Information

Last year alone there were 5074 people arrested for sleeping rough on the streets


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This petition was rejected

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.

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