Rejected petition Make it compulsory for the PM to directly answers questions put at PMQs.

The Speaker has said that he is not responsible for the answers given at PMQs I assume this is a Parliamentary rule), so why not change the rules to allow him to insist that the PM addresses the question asked?

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Too often, the PM ignores the question asked and launches into whatever he/she wants to talk about instead. It seems to be a Parliamentary rule that the Speaker cannot intervene in this. In fact, he said at PMQs on 18/3/26 that he was not responsible for the answers. I suggest the rule should be changed so that the Speaker is made arbiter of whether a question has been answered or not (matters of national security excepted).

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Introduce standards for answers to PMQs to be enforced by the Speaker
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762566

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Date submitted 22 March 2026
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