Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01765 · Session 5

Make those in Scottish public office accountable

Closed Submitted 31 Oct 2019 Equalities
Signatures
0
61 online signatures with a country
Comments
4
Considered
2 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government to ensure that effective measures are introduced, which secure accountability of all Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) and Scottish Government Agencies: for misuse and abuse of both Parliamentary privilege, and conferred authority; assigned to individuals in positions of trust.

What the petitioner did first

I contacted MSPs Des McNulty, and Ken Macintosh.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 5 Dec 2019
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention
  2. 10 Sep 2020
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention

Signatures by country

61 online signatures
  1. Scotland34 55.7%
  2. United Kingdom22 36.1%
  3. England4 6.6%
  4. United States1 1.6%

Comments

4 comments, oldest first
  1. George Murison 31 Oct 2019
    SNP seem to get more money from the treasury than they have accounted for ie brexit planning what have they done with the allocation of 90 million pounds. Also emails not covered by FOI from the first minister why was this allowed.
  2. Ryska Watkins 1 Nov 2019
    I believe this petition is long overdue in order to have an honest insight into how the Scottish Assembly is being run and to ensure that applications for FOI are properly met.
  3. David Peter 1 Nov 2019
    This is happening too often to be ignored, action is needed now.
  4. Graeme McBride 5 Nov 2019
    Transparency and accountability are words often used by Ministers. I'm pretty sure that everyone will agree that nobody should be above reproach when using a platform for defamation.