{"links":{"self":"https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/778401.json"},"data":{"type":"petition","id":778401,"attributes":{"action":"Ban the practice of’ free pitching’ by agencies and freelancers to brands","background":"Ban 'free pitching' in law so that brands must remunerate agencies and freelancers for pitches or use other ways of selecting whom to work with - e.g. brands could look at past work, pricing and reputation as grounds to engage them, as you would in other professions (e.g. trade).","additional_details":"Brands ask agencies to pitch work for free as standard in the UK Creative Industry. The process is extractive, impacting independent business the hardest. Brands with multi-million dollar budgets should not be allowed to ask agencies to embark on work for their business as part of a pitch without paying them for that service. Business intelligence and creative IP is being extracted by brands in some instances - and work that has been created “for free” is being used without engaging the agencies the ideas were stolen from.","committee_note":"","state":"open","signature_count":13,"closing_date":"2027-02-26","created_at":"2026-07-28T19:41:33.150Z","updated_at":"2026-08-26T14:59:50.000Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2026-08-26T11:11:34.893Z","closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2026-07-29T09:47:30.000Z","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,"creator_name":"Morwenna White-Thomson","rejection":null,"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[{"acronym":"DBIST","name":"Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade","url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-and-trade"}],"topics":[],"signatures_by_country":[{"name":"United Kingdom","code":"GB","signature_count":13}],"signatures_by_constituency":[{"name":"Banbury","ons_code":"E14001072","mp":"Sean Woodcock MP","signature_count":1},{"name":"Bermondsey and Old Southwark","ons_code":"E14001085","mp":"Neil Coyle MP","signature_count":1},{"name":"Brentwood and Ongar","ons_code":"E14001125","mp":"Alex Burghart MP","signature_count":1},{"name":"Brighton Pavilion","ons_code":"E14001130","mp":"Siân Berry MP","signature_count":1},{"name":"East Thanet","ons_code":"E14001216","mp":"Ms Polly Billington MP","signature_count":1},{"name":"East Wiltshire","ons_code":"E14001217","mp":"Danny Kruger MP","signature_count":1},{"name":"Ellesmere Port and Bromborough","ons_code":"E14001222","mp":"Justin Madders MP","signature_count":1},{"name":"Esher and Walton","ons_code":"E14001230","mp":"Monica Harding MP","signature_count":1},{"name":"Hackney South and Shoreditch","ons_code":"E14001260","mp":"Dame Meg Hillier MP","signature_count":1},{"name":"Hendon","ons_code":"E14001279","mp":"David Pinto-Duschinsky MP","signature_count":1},{"name":"Lewes","ons_code":"E14001330","mp":"James MacCleary MP","signature_count":3}],"signatures_by_region":[{"name":"North West","ons_code":"B","signature_count":1},{"name":"East of England","ons_code":"G","signature_count":1},{"name":"London","ons_code":"H","signature_count":3},{"name":"South East","ons_code":"J","signature_count":7},{"name":"South West","ons_code":"K","signature_count":1}],"other_parliamentary_business":[]}}}