PoliticalRepoPoliticalRepo

United Kingdom · Record · Petition

Petition 701773

Change the requirements of how often MPs attend a Parliamentary sitting.

closedUnited Kingdom· UK Parliament· EN

Introduced

14 November 2024

Last action

14 November 2024 · Petition

Status

602 signatures

Sponsors

Subjects

Discovery layer

Source updated

16 June 2025

Summary

To set requirements for MPs to attend the House of Commons and to hold constituency surgeries on a minimum number of occasions throughout the year. I think public trust in MPs and the Parliamentary process could be strengthened if MPs were seen to be undertaking their duties according to a minimum set of standards: that is, by attending the House of Commons and holding constituency surgeries on a regular basis as a formal requirement of the role. Such measures should also prohibit MPs from attending celebrity shows and overseas trips that are not related to Parliamentary business on days the House is sitting.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

  1. 14 November 2024

    Petition

    To set requirements for MPs to attend the House of Commons and to hold constituency surgeries on a minimum number of occasions throughout the year. I think public trust in MPs and the Parliamentary process could be strengthened if MPs were seen to be undertaking their duties according to a minimum set of standards: that is, by attending the House of Commons and holding constituency surgeries on a regular basis as a formal requirement of the role. Such measures should also prohibit MPs from attending celebrity shows and overseas trips that are not related to Parliamentary business on days the House is sitting.

    Source: Petition

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

No documents linked.

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.

Sources

PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.