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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 ...
The Petitions Committee is a parliamentary committee of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Its role is to oversee petitions submitted to Parliament, including both electronically through the UK Parliament petitions website, and traditional paper petitions. The committee is one of the youngest in the Commons, formed in 2015, and is made ...
The Recall of MPs Act 2015 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that makes provision for constituents to recall their member of Parliament (MP) and trigger a by-election. It received royal assent on 26 March 2015 after being introduced on 11 September 2014.
The government must respond to all petitions with over 10,000 signatures, and petitions reaching 100,000 signatures are considered before parliament. The petition comes amid growing backlash over ...
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]
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.
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]
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.