Petition Lower the number of signatures needed to Petition Parliament Quicker

At present the government responds to 10,000 votes and a debate is held at 100,000 votes.

The government should reduce the 10,000 to 7,500 and the 100,000 to 60,000.

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For too long have the public been made to wait for things to happen, when if they went through quicker we may actually get somewhere

385 petitions got a response from the Government
66 petitions were debated in the House of Commons

Both numbers look tiny compared to the number of votes needed to get petitions through parliament in the 1st place, this needs to change

If the UK is a true democracy this will happen, otherwise the few who want to make change may never get the chance to

This petition closed early because of a General Election Find out more on the Petitions Committee website

12 signatures

10,000

Date closed 6 November 2019
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