{"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/50532.json"},"data":{"type":"archived-petition","id":50532,"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"A UK lead to G8 countries to offer free phones for persons over 75","background":null,"additional_details":"\r\n\r\n\r\nOn 15 September 2005 I asked Gordon Brown  Chancellor of the Exchequer\r\n\r\n                Several persons at today's conference on Practical Steps to Alleviate UK Poverty, hosted by Elizabeth Finn Care, suggested I put to you directly the question I asked of the keynote speaker Frank Field, which was\r\n\r\n At present persons of 75 and older do not have to pay the TV licence fee, but older persons may have a more urgent need:  an 80-year-old neighbour had no telephone, so I gave my number for her friends to call:  is there any plan to give tariff-free phones to senior citizens over the age, say, of 75, as one step to lessening their isolation?  Nothing happened.\r\n\r\nIs this a field where Britain can give a G8 lead?\r\n\r\n","committee_note":null,"state":"closed","signature_count":4,"created_at":"2013-05-23T10:21:13.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:29:08.413Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2013-05-24T10:16:05.000Z","closed_at":"2014-05-24T10:16:05.000Z","moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2013-05-23T10:21:13.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":null,"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[],"signatures_by_country":[],"signatures_by_constituency":[],"signatures_by_region":[],"other_parliamentary_business":[]}}}