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Petition · past parliament

Make TV free in all hospitals. Why should vulnerable poorly people have to pay.

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

TV in hospitals should be free. Why prey on vulnerable people. They haven't chosen to be poorly. There's alot of elderly people in hospital that can get very lonely and due to the extortionate prices of the TV may not be able to afford it on a pension.

Yet for criminals it's completely free.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Stop whilst in hospital exorbitant TV, phone and internet charges

Timeline

15 Apr 2019 Petition opened for signatures
13 May 2019 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12
Status Rejected
Rejected 13 May 2019

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