{"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/65134.json"},"data":{"type":"archived-petition","id":65134,"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":"Tell us what our Members of the European Parliament do!","background":null,"additional_details":"We are asked to vote for MEPs, but no one knows who their MEP is or what they do on our behalf. We have the excellent website 'theyworkforyou.com'  that you can set up to notify you whenever your MP speaks in the House of Commons.\r\n\r\nIt is time that this government ensures that MEPs are equally accountable to us, their electorate.\r\n\r\nStrangely I cannot find a Government department that deals with the EU.\r\nMore transparency is required if you expect us to take an interest","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2014-05-15T13:49:45.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:29:58.767Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:44:19.411Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2014-05-15T13:49:45.000Z","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":{"code":"irrelevant","details":"The European Parliament, as an institute of the European Union, is separate to HM Government. The European Parliament’s own website and its own information office in the UK can provide further information on MEPs, their respective websites are as follows: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en and http://www.europarl.org.uk/en/your_meps.html;jsessionid=CD5818C8E735EF3AFFD476F4A76B2EF3. It is worth noting that the website www.TheyWorkForYou.com is independent of HM Government.\r\n\r\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office leads on the UK Government’s policy on the Institutions of the European Union."},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}}}