Rejected petition The Government will debate any Petition reaching 1 million votes.

The petition reaching 1 million votes will be debated in the full House of Commons and the House of Lords. Currently any petition reaching 100,000 votes may be considered for debate.

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When a petition has been signed by 1 million voters, the strength of feeling needs to be acknowledged and properly debated.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/179088

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 30 January 2017
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The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.