Submitted on Thursday 3rd February 2022
Rejected on Friday 4th March 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: already-happening (see below for details)
Add a new Parliamentary Standing Order to ensure the honesty of members.
Add a new Parliamentary Standing Order that will instruct members who have provably misled the house to correct the record. Members who fail to correct the record, after a reasonable opportunity, are to be named and suspended from the house until such time as they are prepared to correct the record.
The Nolan Principles state that holders of public office should be truthful. The intention of Ministerial Code is that inadvertent errors given to parliament by ministers are corrected. These show that a core principle of our democracy is honesty.
We have seen the need recently for Members to correct the record but failed to do so. This undermines the foundation of our democracy.
This petition is intended to reinforce the ideal of honesty of Parliament and its members,
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
It's already the case that someone found to have knowlingly mislead the House may have commited a contempt and be subject to sanctions including suspension. You can read more here
erskinemay.parliament.uk/section/5022/members-deliberately-misleading-the-house/
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