E-petitions

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House – in the House of Commons at 9:30 am on 27 June 2013.

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Photo of Andrew Lansley Andrew Lansley The Leader of the House of Commons 9:30, 27 June 2013

My hon. Friend makes a good point. Improving engagement with Parliament and politics must be the focus of any improved system. I am grateful to him for his suggestion on how we can achieve that. However, I alert him to the fact that more than 11 million signatures have been added to petitions in the two years or so since the Government’s e-petitions system was established. I am not sure that hon. Members would welcome an e-mail for each of those signatures, but I do agree that there are ways in which we can open up the data overall to help Members and their constituents to identify and work together on popular petitions.