Part of Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 3 Mehefin 1991.
Does the Lord President realise that more than 900 official petitions submitted last year received the response from the Government, "There is no Government response"? They were not ordinary street-corner petitions; people had to go through a detailed rigmarole to present them to the House. The Government are undermining the British people's traditional right to present a petition to the House. I would have put this complaint in a petition, but I feared that I would receive the reply, "There is no response".