Any petition with more than 10,000 signatures on the parliament website gets a government response, and if one gets more than 100,000 signatures it is automatically considered for debate in Parliament. According to the BBC, the cross-party Commons petitions committee is due to meet next week ...
Petitions on the U.K. government stay active for six months. The rules state that at 10,000 signatures, a petition on the government gets considered for debate. At 100,000, it gets a government response. The petition benefited from a boost when X owner Elon Musk, who lives in the U.S...
Petitions on the U.K. government stay active for six months. The rules state that at 10,000 signatures, a petition on the government gets considered for debate. At 100,000, it gets a government response. The petition benefited from a boost when X owner Elon Musk, who lives in the U.S...
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What, When and Where of petitions submitted to the UK Government during a time of chaosIn times marked by political turbulence and uncertainty, as well as increasing divisiveness and hyperpartisanship, Governments need to use every tool at their disposal to understand and respond to the concerns ...
The House Of Commons’ chair of petitions and Labour MP Catherine McKinnell then ended by saying: “I would say that on behalf of artists, there will be concern that the government doesn’t have more vision of the impact of the failure to arrive on an agreeme...
First, the UK government has its own petition website. The petitions hosted on there are explicitly directed to the government, and as such they are a very explicit form of unconventional political participation. Second, online petitions are widely used; Hansard reports that 28% of the public ...
Public Petitions to Parliament, 1833-1918 This collection shows how “the people” during the 19th Century influenced Parliament on political, ecclesiastical, colonial, taxation, and many other topics relevant to Britain and Empire. Read more
If we've got people dying because they can't support themselves, government money should be going on that before anything else. I saw people from other countries in the comments on videos about this, they couldn't believe it. They were dumbfounded. You've got Canadians saying this doesn'...
Digital technologies could also play a role in allowing decision-makers to elicit and cheaply incorporate mass public views. The UK government re-established an official online petitions site in 2015, where citizens can lodge proposals for issues to be reviewed by Parliament. Any petition gaining 10...