{"links":{"self":"https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/328872.json"},"data":{"type":"archived-petition","id":328872,"parliament":{"period":"2019-2024","government":"Conservative","dissolution_at":"2024-05-30T00:01:00.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Stop the merger between the FCO and DfID.","background":"Parliament must hold this government to account over this ill-informed decision to jeopardise the UK’s world-leading humanitarian work. The merger must be reversed and the government should take additional steps to ensure development aims are further enshrined in the government's agenda.","additional_details":"At a time when  Covid-19 threatens to push 71,000,000 people into extreme poverty this government has abandoned its commitment to help the world’s poorest. This merger will undermine years of hard -won gains in child survival, equality, female empowerment, literacy and poverty across the world. By returning us to the dark days of tied aid, there will be a completely avoidable rise in death and suffering across the developing world. This is a humanitarian crisis in the making and must be stopped.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":11,"created_at":"2020-06-23T17:18:22.425Z","updated_at":"2020-07-21T15:48:31.479Z","rejected_at":"2020-07-21T15:48:31.483Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2020-06-23T19:07:04.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_on":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"duplicate","details":"You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/327602"},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}}}