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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 ...
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 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 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]
On 29 April 2024, MPs debated assisted suicide after a petition on UK Parliament petitions website reached the 100,000 signature threshold. [7] [8] By the time of the debate it had reached over 200,000 signatures.
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.
The Recall of MPs Act 2015 provides that a recall petition is automatically initiated by any of several events happening to an MP, one of which is suspension from the House of Commons for a period of more than 10 sitting days or 14 calendar days. Under the procedure, 10% of the constituency's electorate had to sign the petition to cause a by ...