Overview

50,000+ petitions collected from UK Parliament petitions website

The UK Parliament petitions website allows members of the public to create and sign petitions for consideration by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

• Petitions with >100,000 signatures will be considered for debate in Parliament
• Petitions with >10,000 signatures will receive a response from the government

Dataset contains petition background information, number of signatures, government responses, reasons for rejections and further information regarding the outcomes including debate transcripts.

Data collection

Web-scraping tools can be found here