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The e-petitions were relaunched by the Conservative–Liberal Democrat Coalition government in July 2011. Petitions backed by 100,000 signatures would now be considered for debate in Parliament and the website was moved to Directgov. [6] In the following year, a total of 36,000 petitions were submitted, attracting 6.4 million signatures. [7]
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 ...
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 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 ...
The petition remains open for six weeks. [17] No ongoing tally is reported by the petitions officer, and it is not revealed whether the required threshold of 10 per cent of eligible voters has been reached until the close of the petition period. During the petition period the MP remains in office.
On 23 March 2019, the record for greatest number of verified signatures on an official government petition was broken in the UK. The petition, remaining live until August 2019, calls to ‘Revoke Article 50 and remain in the E.U.', [8] and had over 6 million signatures by 31 March 2019.
It is also considered to be the most-signed petition to the UK parliament of any type on record, surpassing a petition from 1990 that protested reductions to the ambulance service, which was signed by 4.5 million people. [2] On 24 March the petition surpassed 5 million signatures. [15] On 31 March it reached 6 million signatures. [16]
This distinction is made in the tables below in the area column, where "GB" means Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), and "UK" means the entire United Kingdom. Plaid Cymru only stand candidates in Wales and the Scottish National Party only stand candidates in Scotland. Due to rounding total figures might not add up to 100%.