Rejected petition That the proposal to increase the number of MS’s be decided by referendum

The money that will be spent on the additional MS’s could be better spent on the NHS or dentists.

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue, or if the Petitions Committee has considered one in the last year.

The Petitions Committee has recently considered a petition on this issue:

Hold a referendum seeking approval from the people to increase Assembly members by 36

Details of the Committee’s previous consideration of this issue can be found here:
https://business.senedd.wales/ieIssueDetails.aspx?IId=41662&Opt=3

We will inform the Senedd Reform Bill Committee that this petition was submitted (and rejected) because it duplicates a petition closed within the last 12 months.

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Date submitted 18 September 2023
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