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Make Online Petition Signatures require National Insurance number.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Make all Gov UK petition signatures Require National insurance number to be Valid.

This would stop People being able to use Fake email generators and putting in random postcodes to be counted as a signature on any future Petition.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

We're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do.

Under the rules agreed by the House of Commons all UK residents and British Citizens and sign a petition. This includes people who don't have National Insurance numbers (eg. people who are under 16). We aren't sure whether you want to disqualify those people from signing petitions or not.

If you'd like the rules on petitions to change, so that only people with National Insurance numbers are eligible to sign petitions and need to provide their NI number to sign, you could start a new petition asking for that.

Timeline

1 Apr 2019 Petition opened for signatures
29 Apr 2019 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 29 Apr 2019

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.