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MPs can do the following things
Ask oral questions: these are tabled two weeks in advance to a government department and are drawn by ballot. There is only time for 10 - 15 questions to be answered. For more info, read the factsheet on parliamentary questions here
Ask written questions: they can ask an unlimited number of written questions, usually to elicit information from a government department. This can be done on your behalf. For more info, read the factsheet on parliamentary questions here
- Write to a Government Minister/European Commissioner on your behalf.
Early Day Motions (a kind of parliamentary petition). MPs can:
- Table an Early Day Motion in Parliament
- Add ammendments to exisitng EDMs
- Sign a Early Day Motion.
For more info, read the factsheet on EDMs here
- Vote a particular way on a bill
- Give your group their public support, useful for the national campaign and for getting local press attention. Get it in writing!
MEPs can do the following things
- Vote in Parliament on a directive
- Persuade other members of their party, their party expert, their European group members or that group expert
- Give your group their public support, useful for the national campaign and for getting press attention. Get it in writing, and get them to sign any petitions we have going!
Councillors can do the following things
- Something to do with policy?
- Give your group their public support, useful for getting local press attention. Get it in writing!
Unions can do the following things
- Pass new policy, for example to release all official documents or the student newspaper under a Creative Commons license
- Pass symbolic motions of support for Free Culture UK
Lobby university officials to pass similar policies & symbolic motions