Petition Require government ministers to be experts in their area of responsibility.

It is important that decisions affecting the UK are made by experts. Introduce a prerequisite requirement that ministers must be able to demonstrate expertise in relation to their allocated area, based on specialist expert qualifications or equivalent experience working in a directly related job.

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207 signatures

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Date closed 14 August 2016
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