Any citizen can send any petition in terms of the basic rules (they can only do that through members of parliament). Citizens can still write to the Ministers and lobby them. There are no specific procedures for the petition-process in the United Kingdom, and this has tremendous implications. The petition process is not the best way of exercising power in the United Kingdom, because when petitions are not generated by Members, it simply means that when a member debates, it becomes his or her own debate. Sometimes, they even use a method of signatures, which can generate up to 100 000 signatories when creating awareness. It became very clear that Parliament of the United Kingdom does not give prominence to petitions, although the recent changes at local level demonstrate that they are obliged in terms of the law to ensure the processing of the petitions. It is believed that the Parliament of Scotland is believed to be quite advanced in the petition process.