Submitted on Saturday 25th April 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 7th July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Publish the members of SAGE, remove non scientist and publish advice in full.
In a matter of public interest and the safety of the public as a whole. It would be beneficial for the government to review SAGE and its members. For the sake of public trust, publish the members of SAGE, remove those without a professional background in science and publish SAGE's advice in full.
It has come to light in recently that certain members of SAGE are without a professional scientific background. This will infer that theirs a larger overall political agenda which will place the lives of those in the UK at risk.
For the benefit of public safety the government will have to do more than they are currently by publishing SAGE's advice in whole for public scrutiny later, publish the members of SAGE to remove all doubt any possible political agenda and remove any non-scientists.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We understand that you are concerned about the arrangements for the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), but it's not clear exactly what actions you want the Government to take, and whether they would result in the outcome you want.
The Government has recently published a list of participants of SAGE and related sub-groups, except for those individuals who did not give permission for their names to be published: www.gov.uk/government/publications/scientific-advisory-group-for-emergencies-sage-coronavirus-covid-19-response-membership/list-of-participants-of-sage-and-related-sub-groups
Other individuals are able to attend SAGE meetings as observers or part of the secretariat, as show in the minutes that have been published: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/895862/S0468_Thirty-ninth_SAGE_meeting_on_Covid-19.pdf
We have already published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Release unredacted minutes of SAGE group meetings: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/321416
Stop Special Advisers from attending SAGE meetings: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/318308
If you want the Government to restrict either membership of the group or attendance at the meetings to certain professions, you could start a new petition requesting this, but it would need to be clear exactly what restrictions you wanted the Government to impose.
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