Petitions Committee doing its job

Mark 7 Comments

You may have received an email like this one from the Petitions Committee:

You recently signed the petition “Legal rights for ancient trees”:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300050

The Petitions Committee (the group of MPs who oversee the petitions system) have considered the Government’s response to this petition. They felt that the response did not directly address the request of petition and have therefore written back to the Government to ask them to provide a revised response.

When the Committee have received a revised response from the Government, this will be published on the website and you will receive an email.

If you would not like to receive further updates about this petition, you can unsubscribe below.

Thanks,

The Petitions team

UK Government and Parliament

Excellent! This is the Petitions Committee doing its job – and is one of the things which I asked for here (although I’m sure that is a coincidence). This will make government departments up their game – and DEFRA’s game is pretty poor.

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7 Replies to “Petitions Committee doing its job”

  1. At last the Parliamentary Petitions committee doing its job of making sure that government responses are timely and relevant. One wonders why they were not doing this previously.

    1. Paul – well, there’s a new chair, new members and for all I know new parliamentary staff involved. And it’s a new world!

      1. Mark- Difficult to believe that the Petitions Committee procedures have improved under the Johnson Gov’t, although it is possibly nay probably the only thing to do that.

        1. Aha! Nothing to do with the government of course, Paul, who are probably irritated by this development: they aren’t known for their love of scrutiny. I don’t think it can be just coincidence though that this new policy has started since ‘my’ MP Tonia Antoniazzi has been on the committee!

          It is though a very welcome, if tiny, increase in democratic accountability.

    2. If you follow the links through the Petition process you can find the names of the 11 current members. Distribution reflects the proportion of party membership in the Commons. It doesn’t say who the Chair is for an individual Petition as far as I could tell.

  2. I got the same email today regarding a petition I signed to ban the import of shark fins. Encouraging.

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