Petition Ministerial Qualifications

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The Country's welfare is too important to leave to unqualified people - This petition calls for any minister holding a specific cabinet office to be qualified in their specific field - i.e. a chancellor must hold an economics degree or higher, a justice secretary must hold a law degree or higher.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

80 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 80 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 4 August 2012
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