Submitted on Friday 30th September 2022
Rejected on Tuesday 4th October 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: already-happening (see below for details)
Return petitions to Parliamentary only control and set 90 limit for debate.
Currently petitions are reviewed by government and Parliament. This allows government to block petitions they don't like.
Return petitions to a Parliament committee only to remove bias.
Currently there are petitions that are waiting for debate for over 500 days.
Implement policy to ensure petitions that qualify for debate are debated within 90 days.
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 is already the case that petitions are reviewed by House of Commons officials on behalf of a parliamentary committee of MPs, not a "Government committee". This is called the Petitions Committee.
Once a petition reaches 10,000 signatures, it receives a written response from the Government. Once it receives over 100,000 signatures, the Petitions Committee considers whether to schedule it for debate.
The Petitions Committee consists of eleven MPs from different political parties and it sits within the House of the Commons. You can see the membership of the Committee here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/membership/
None of the MPs in the Committee are ministers within the Government.
We could accept a petition that asks for a rule change so that, once a petition reaches over 100,000 signatures, it's debated within at least 90 days.
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