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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 ...
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]
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 ...
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.
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 modern system of departmental select committees in the UK came into being in 1979, following the recommendations of a 1978 Procedure Select Committee report. [15] It recommended the appointment of a series of select committees covering all the main departments of state, with wide terms of reference, and with power to appoint specialist ...
As long as the British Government has not invoked Article 50, the UK stays a member of the EU; must continue to fulfil all EU-related treaties, including possible future agreements; and should legally be treated as a member. The EU has no framework to exclude the UK as long as Article 50 is not invoked, and the UK does not violate EU laws.