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The UK Parliament petitions website (e-petitions) allows members of the public to create and support petitions for consideration by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Although the UK Parliament's Petitions Committee considers all petitions which receive 100,000 signatures or more, there is no automatic parliamentary debate of those that pass ...
Petitions which reach 10,000 signatures receive a written response from the UK Government. The committee can schedule debates in the House of Commons' second debating chamber (Westminster Hall), on Monday evenings at 4.30 pm. [2] When Parliament is dissolved, all open petitions on petition.parliament.uk are closed, and new petitions are not ...
Parliament Petition and by-election MP Cause Outcome % signing petition MP elected in by-election 2017–2019: North Antrim, 2018: Ian Paisley Jr (independent, suspended from DUP during petition) 30-day suspension from the House 9.4% Petition unsuccessful: Peterborough, 2019: Fiona Onasanya (independent, elected as Labour) Custodial sentence of ...
The government must respond to all petitions with over 10,000 signatures, and petitions reaching 100,000 signatures are considered before parliament. ... Only British citizens and UK residents are ...
An election petition is a petition challenging the result of an election to a United Kingdom Parliament constituency.The Parliamentary Elections Act 1868 transferred the jurisdiction for considering petitions from the House of Commons to the law courts.
The UK Parliament petitions website has operated in various guises since 2006. [15] Beginning in 2011, a parliamentary committee considered holding a parliamentary debate for petitions attracting more than 100,000 signatures. [16] In 2015, the process was formalized within Parliament and a permanent Petitions Committee was established. [17]
By 24 March 2019, the petition had received 5 million signatures, and is the most-signed online petition to the UK parliament on record; [2] it reached 6 million on 31 March, and closed on 20 August with a total of 6,103,056 signatures, the highest figure obtained for any British petition since the Chartists' petition of 1848. [3]
A petition is successful if at least 10 per cent of the constituency's electorate sign the petition. Successful petitions result in the MP vacating the seat, triggering a by-election. As of March 2024, six petitions have been held under the Act, four resulting in by-elections and one being terminated early due to the MP's resignation.