WRITTEN ON May 8th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Political engagement, Save Time and Money, What do we want?

The Parliamentary procedures committee wants action and progres on e-petitions to Parliament (from press release):

The Government should think again about its waning support for a parliamentary e-petitions system and should allow the project to move forward.

The Procedure Committee today publishes a report, regretting the apparent lack of will by the Government to support the development of a robust and effective e-petitions system, as accepted by the Leader of the House last July. The Government later asked the Committee to reconsider the scheme in order to lower its expense. Having examined the options, the Committee concludes that a significant reduction in costs cannot be achieved without breaching the fundamental principles that petitions should be part of parliamentary proceedings and that constituency Members should be directly involved in the petitions procedure.

Petitions to Parliament may make a lot more sense than petitioning 10 Downing Street only to be fobbed off. BTW: has anyone made substantive progress on any issue by petitioning the PM?