Submitted on Thursday 11th November 2021
Rejected on Friday 19th November 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Ensure that the right to physical money is retained for future generations
Put the right to physical money that is legal tender (as per the current pound) into the constitution in perpetuity.
The public feel their privacy is threatened by the introduction of "digital currency".
Digital currencies may aid tax evasion
People use cash as a tool to regulate spending
Cash is used as incentives to return keys and trolleys
Cash is used in slot machines
Cash is used as a gift
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions must call for a specific action that the UK Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.
The UK does not have a written constitution, and the current Government and Parliament cannot make decisions or enact laws that bind future governments or parliaments, so we cannot accept petitions that make requests for certain laws or rights to be set in perpetuity.
We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:
Require all retailers and businesses to accept cash for goods and services: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/588814
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