Electronic Government: Petitions
Leader of the House
Graham Jones (Hyndburn, Labour)
To ask the Leader of the House whether
(1) he has considered moving responsibility for administering the e-petitions system from the executive to the House of Commons;
(2) whether he has considered the creation of a committee to give parliamentary oversight of the e-petitions system.
George Young (Leader of the House of Commons, House of Commons; North West Hampshire, Conservative)
Any changes to the role of the House of Commons in relation to e-petitions would be a matter for the Procedure Committee to consider in the first instance.