Implement a new parliamentary petitions process that:
- requires a referendum if 500k signatures are reached
- removes limits on the length of petitions
- publishes petitions immediately (Only petitions containing offensive content should be removed)
-allow petitions to run for 12 months and not to be suspended or terminated during election periods

Raising a petition is challenging because character limits in the current process can make it difficult to articulate what action you want the Government to take, many petitions are then rejected for clarity.
Petitions are also rejected or amended if the petitions committee believe them to be outside of government control, accuse the government of wrong doing or for other unknown reasons.
For example "Reform MHRA and turn into a fully transparent, patient first regulator" was turned into "Review how to turn MHRA into a fully transparent, patient first regulator", substantially softened with no clear reasoning.

We believe the current petitions process is flawed because there is no vote by MPs or the public, therefore there is no mechanism for change.

There is a perception that debates are held for all petitions that achieve 100k signatures, but in reality the decision is made behind closed doors, parliamentary privilege is used as a smokescreen to hide the selection process from the public

It was a shock to people who signed e-Petition 648609 “End the UK’s membership of the World Health Organization” that the Petitions Committee refused to debate it.

The excuse used was “the issues raised by this petition have recently been discussed by MPs in other debates”. 
The previous petitions were completely different, the first requested a referendum on the Pandemic Treaty and the second a parliamentary vote on changes to the International Health Regulations. Although this petition called for a more drastic measure of leaving WHO, the subject is far from comparable. An FOI was raised to request the minutes of the meeting, the process for debate selection and any complaints or appeals procedure; a summary of their reply was as follows:

"In the first instance, please understand that the work of our committees is part of the proceedings of the House of Commons and is therefore subject to parliamentary privilege. These privileges include the exclusive right of each House and their committees to decide whether and when information relating to proceedings should be made public.
In order to prevent an infringement of parliamentary privilege, any information which may be held in relation to your request is exempt under section 34 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). This is an absolute exemption and the public interest test does not apply. Decisions on whether petitions are debated are made by the Petitions Committee on a case by case basis, and there is no written process for how these decisions are made. There is no appeal or complaints procedure regarding decisions made by the Petitions
Committee."

In short: there is no process for decisions, whether to debate or not is 100% up to a handful of MPs, petitioners have no right to appeal or raise a complaint and there is zero transparency.

You do not need to support the petition to leave WHO to have concerns about the lack of a democratic and transparent process.

Even more worryingly now, as an election approaches, Parliamentary Petitions are suspended: people only get a say about how the country is run once every 4 years and at this time their right to have a collective voice is taken away. 

ePetitions must be reformed.

The following petitions were lost due to the election, but now have replacements on other platforms so please support the petitioners here:

• Review how to turn MHRA into a fully transparent, patient first regulator
  • Replaced by Reform MHRA and turn it into a transparent, patient 1st regulator
• New legislation: ensure informed consent is always given to avoid patient harm
  • New legislation: ensure informed consent is always given to avoid patient harm

If you want your petition added here, please let me know and I will add it whether I agree with it or not, zero bias.