Submitted on Thursday 26th March 2026
Rejected on Thursday 23rd April 2026
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Hold Ministers including the Prime Minister accountable to Parliament
Require the Speaker (or Deputy Speaker) to require Ministers to respond to questions. Recently, the Speaker is not intervening at Prime Ministers Questions when the current Prime Minister is clearly not responding to questions.
It is important that the Government is answerable to Parliament.
Recently, the Speaker has not held Government ministers to account which is in contrast to how the Speaker intervened when previous Prime Minsters e.g. Boris Johnson evaded questions.
This creates a perception of a two tier political process which is unhelpful for our democracy.
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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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You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:
Introduce standards for answers to PMQs to be enforced by the Speaker
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762566
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