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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] After the closure of the Directgov website, the e-petitions were moved to the new GOV.UK website in October ...
British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918. Macmillan. ISBN 9781349022984. Day — Day, Samuel H. (1894). Election cases in 1892 and 1893: being a collection of the points of law and practice arising out of the parliamentary election petitions in those years, together with reports of the judgments. London: Stevens and Sons.
When Parliament is dissolved, all open petitions on petition.parliament.uk are closed, and new petitions are not accepted. After a new Petitions Committee is set up by the House of Commons, closed petitions are not reopened. Petitions which reach 100,000 signatures are considered by the committee for debate. Petitions may not be put forward for ...
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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]
In 1961, Tony Benn was disqualified from taking up his seat after a by-election by an election court because he held a peerage. In 1982, Seamus Mallon was disqualified from taking his seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly as he was a member of Seanad Éireann, the upper chamber of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, at the time of his election.
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New collections also include a web archive which maintains a history of the main parliamentary website and its many subsites. [5] In March 2021, the Parliamentary Archives became an Accredited Archive Service. [6] In March 2022, it was announced that the Parliamentary Archives would be relocating to The National Archives, Kew, by 2025. [1]