Explain why FCO 30/1048 was withheld from the British public for 30 years

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Popularity

This petition has 1,765 signatures in total, with signatories from 560 constituencies. That makes it the 5,211th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 59% (average) and a Local Issue Rating of 32% (high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 10 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 10 - Louth and Horncastle
• 9 - Vale of Clwyd
• 9 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 8 - North West Hampshire
• 8 - Northampton North
• 8 - North Shropshire
• 8 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 8 - Boston and Skegness
• 8 - Pendle
• 8 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 8 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 7 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 7 - South West Wiltshire
• 7 - Great Grimsby
• 7 - Worthing West
• 7 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 7 - Rochford and Southend East
• 7 - Ynys Môn
• 7 - Ceredigion
• 7 - Mid Sussex
• 7 - Torbay
• 7 - Selby and Ainsty
• 7 - Wyre and Preston North
• 7 - Hastings and Rye
• 7 - Thirsk and Malton
• 7 - Maldon
• 7 - Stevenage
• 6 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 6 - Blyth Valley
• 6 - Rochester and Strood
• 6 - Grantham and Stamford
• 6 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 6 - Huntingdon
• 6 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 6 - Waveney
• 6 - St Ives
• 6 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 6 - Chorley
• 6 - West Suffolk
• 6 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 6 - Southend West
• 6 - Leicester West
• 6 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 6 - Lewisham East
• 6 - Milton Keynes South
• 6 - Milton Keynes North
• 6 - Aldershot
• 6 - Sherwood
• 6 - Monmouth
• 6 - Ashford
• 6 - Meriden
• 6 - Dover
• 6 - Dewsbury
• 6 - South Thanet
• 5 - Christchurch
• 5 - East Devon
• 5 - Rugby
• 5 - Daventry
• 5 - Rutland and Melton
• 5 - Castle Point
• 5 - Orpington
• 5 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 5 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 5 - Eastbourne
• 5 - Scunthorpe
• 5 - Eltham
• 5 - Poole
• 5 - Congleton
• 5 - South Derbyshire
• 5 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 5 - St Austell and Newquay
• 5 - Epping Forest
• 5 - Solihull
• 5 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 5 - Romford
• 5 - South Shields
• 5 - Denton and Reddish
• 5 - Colne Valley
• 5 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 5 - Hartlepool
• 5 - Devizes
• 5 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 5 - Bournemouth East
• 5 - Keighley
• 5 - Wirral South
• 5 - Blackpool South
• 5 - Kettering
• 5 - Woking
• 5 - North Durham
• 5 - Morley and Outwood
• 5 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 5 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 5 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 5 - New Forest East
• 5 - Lincoln
• 5 - Makerfield
• 5 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 5 - Leeds East
• 5 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 5 - Nottingham North
• 5 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 5 - Havant
• 5 - Mid Worcestershire
• 5 - Mansfield
• 5 - Bury South
• 5 - High Peak
• 5 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 5 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 5 - Isle of Wight
• 5 - Nuneaton
• 5 - Wellingborough
• 5 - Arundel and South Downs
• 5 - North Thanet
• 5 - Bury St Edmunds
• 4 - Newark
• 4 - Newbury
• 4 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 4 - Leicester East
• 4 - Saffron Walden
• 4 - Middlesbrough
• 4 - Rotherham
• 4 - Norwich South
• 4 - Mid Derbyshire
• 4 - Erewash
• 4 - Hemsworth
• 4 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 4 - Heywood and Middleton
• 4 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 4 - Great Yarmouth
• 4 - Ipswich
• 4 - Salford and Eccles
• 4 - Jarrow
• 4 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 4 - Fylde
• 4 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 4 - Gedling
• 4 - Rochdale
• 4 - Feltham and Heston
• 4 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 4 - Stafford
• 4 - Kingswood
• 4 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 4 - Halton
• 4 - Caerphilly
• 4 - Witham
• 4 - Wigan
• 4 - Bracknell
• 4 - Braintree
• 4 - Brigg and Goole
• 4 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 4 - Watford
• 4 - Wantage
• 4 - Bromsgrove
• 4 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 4 - Buckingham
• 4 - Tynemouth
• 4 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 4 - The Wrekin
• 4 - Suffolk Coastal
• 4 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 4 - Worcester
• 4 - Blackley and Broughton
• 4 - Pontypridd
• 4 - Amber Valley
• 4 - Ashfield
• 4 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 4 - Barnsley East
• 4 - Barrow and Furness
• 4 - Delyn
• 4 - Bassetlaw
• 4 - Livingston
• 4 - Glasgow North West
• 4 - Beverley and Holderness
• 4 - Edinburgh South West
• 4 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 4 - Belfast East
• 4 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 4 - York Outer
• 4 - Central Devon
• 4 - Stretford and Urmston
• 4 - Southport
• 4 - Doncaster Central
• 4 - South West Norfolk
• 4 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 4 - South Ribble
• 4 - Clacton
• 4 - Southampton, Test
• 4 - South Swindon
• 4 - South West Bedfordshire
• 4 - Coventry South
• 4 - South West Surrey
• 4 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 4 - Sheffield Central
• 4 - Stockton South
• 4 - Sedgefield
• 4 - Chichester
• 4 - Stone
• 4 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 3 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 3 - Banff and Buchan
• 3 - South Antrim
• 3 - Ribble Valley
• 3 - South West Hertfordshire
• 3 - Manchester, Gorton
• 3 - Wyre Forest
• 3 - Sevenoaks
• 3 - South Suffolk
• 3 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 3 - Rother Valley
• 3 - Gower
• 3 - South East Cornwall
• 3 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 3 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 3 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 3 - Moray
• 3 - Mole Valley
• 3 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 3 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 3 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 3 - North Cornwall
• 3 - North West Durham
• 3 - Warley
• 3 - Peterborough
• 3 - Walsall North
• 3 - North Wiltshire
• 3 - Preston
• 3 - Northampton South
• 3 - Spelthorne
• 3 - Stockton North
• 3 - Portsmouth South
• 3 - Portsmouth North
• 3 - Telford
• 3 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 3 - Warrington South
• 3 - Pudsey
• 3 - North Tyneside
• 3 - Workington
• 3 - Twickenham
• 3 - Wirral West
• 3 - North East Derbyshire
• 3 - Reading West
• 3 - West Worcestershire
• 3 - Southampton, Itchen
• 3 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 3 - Wells
• 3 - North Norfolk
• 3 - Putney
• 3 - North Somerset
• 3 - Belfast North
• 3 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 3 - Bolsover
• 3 - Harwich and North Essex
• 3 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 3 - East Surrey
• 3 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 3 - Easington
• 3 - Ealing North
• 3 - Birkenhead
• 3 - Bournemouth West
• 3 - Cheadle
• 3 - Esher and Walton
• 3 - East Yorkshire
• 3 - Huddersfield
• 3 - Carlisle
• 3 - Hertford and Stortford
• 3 - Blaydon
• 3 - Canterbury
• 3 - Henley
• 3 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 3 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 3 - Bolton North East
• 3 - Camborne and Redruth
• 3 - Bolton South East
• 3 - Darlington
• 3 - Leeds Central
• 3 - Harlow
• 3 - Burton
• 3 - Guildford
• 3 - Lichfield
• 3 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 3 - Bath
• 3 - Coventry North West
• 3 - Barking
• 3 - Banbury
• 3 - Crawley
• 3 - Gosport
• 3 - Macclesfield
• 3 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 3 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 3 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 3 - Chippenham
• 3 - Forest of Dean
• 3 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 3 - Lewes
• 3 - Chesterfield
• 3 - Gainsborough
• 3 - Broxtowe
• 2 - Walsall South
• 2 - Bristol West
• 2 - Totnes
• 2 - Wakefield
• 2 - Tunbridge Wells
• 2 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 2 - Thurrock
• 2 - Wallasey
• 2 - Taunton Deane
• 2 - Coventry North East
• 2 - St Albans
• 2 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 2 - City of Chester
• 2 - City of Durham
• 2 - Cleethorpes
• 2 - Colchester
• 2 - Corby
• 2 - Croydon Central
• 2 - Croydon South
• 2 - St Helens North
• 2 - Chesham and Amersham
• 2 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 2 - Tatton
• 2 - Tamworth
• 2 - Surrey Heath
• 2 - Stroud
• 2 - Stourbridge
• 2 - Charnwood
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 2 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 2 - Stockport
• 2 - Sunderland Central
• 2 - Ogmore
• 2 - Beaconsfield
• 2 - Beckenham
• 2 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 2 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 2 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 2 - Bexhill and Battle
• 2 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 2 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 2 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 2 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 2 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 2 - Stirling
• 2 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 2 - Wrexham
• 2 - Bridgend
• 2 - Blaenau Gwent
• 2 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 2 - Clwyd West
• 2 - Newport West
• 2 - Newport East
• 2 - Barnsley Central
• 2 - Torfaen
• 2 - Rhondda
• 2 - Cardiff Central
• 2 - Swansea East
• 2 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 2 - Argyll and Bute
• 2 - Weston-super-Mare
• 2 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 2 - Bradford East
• 2 - West Lancashire
• 2 - West Bromwich West
• 2 - West Bromwich East
• 2 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 2 - Bradford West
• 2 - Weaver Vale
• 2 - Wealden
• 2 - Bristol North West
• 2 - Bosworth
• 2 - Bootle
• 2 - Witney
• 2 - Angus
• 2 - Aberdeen South
• 2 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 2 - North Down
• 2 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 2 - East Antrim
• 2 - Belfast South
• 2 - Birmingham, Hodge Hill
• 2 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 2 - Wycombe
• 2 - Blackburn
• 2 - Bristol South
• 2 - Hammersmith
• 2 - Leeds West
• 2 - Nottingham South
• 2 - Hemel Hempstead
• 2 - North East Bedfordshire
• 2 - Enfield, Southgate
• 2 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 2 - Hertsmere
• 2 - Nottingham East
• 2 - Rushcliffe
• 2 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 2 - Salisbury
• 2 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 2 - Eastleigh
• 2 - Exeter
• 2 - Fareham
• 2 - Penrith and The Border
• 2 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 2 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 2 - Newton Abbot
• 2 - Oxford East
• 2 - North Devon
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 2 - Oldham West and Royton
• 2 - Redditch
• 2 - Reigate
• 2 - Richmond Park
• 2 - Gateshead
• 2 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 2 - Sefton Central
• 2 - Broxbourne
• 2 - Dartford
• 2 - Dudley South
• 2 - Doncaster North
• 2 - Mid Norfolk
• 2 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 2 - Hyndburn
• 2 - South Dorset
• 2 - Manchester, Withington
• 2 - Don Valley
• 2 - Hove
• 2 - South Norfolk
• 2 - South Northamptonshire
• 2 - Derby South
• 2 - Manchester Central
• 2 - Luton North
• 2 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 2 - Ilford North
• 2 - North Herefordshire
• 2 - North East Hampshire
• 2 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 2 - Gravesham
• 2 - Hexham
• 2 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 2 - Skipton and Ripon
• 2 - Liverpool, Walton
• 1 - Glasgow North East
• 1 - North Swindon
• 1 - North East Hertfordshire
• 1 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 1 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 1 - Edinburgh West
• 1 - East Renfrewshire
• 1 - Aberdeen North
• 1 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 1 - Dundee East
• 1 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 1 - North Dorset
• 1 - South Down
• 1 - Central Ayrshire
• 1 - Kensington
• 1 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 1 - Glasgow South West
• 1 - Leigh
• 1 - Cardiff North
• 1 - Mitcham and Morden
• 1 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 1 - Aberconwy
• 1 - Loughborough
• 1 - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
• 1 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 1 - Clwyd South
• 1 - Montgomeryshire
• 1 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 1 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 1 - Aylesbury
• 1 - Meon Valley
• 1 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 1 - Basildon and Billericay
• 1 - Leicester South
• 1 - Glenrothes
• 1 - Gordon
• 1 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 1 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 1 - Leeds North East
• 1 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 1 - Battersea
• 1 - Batley and Spen
• 1 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 1 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 1 - Leeds North West
• 1 - New Forest West
• 1 - Basingstoke
• 1 - Alyn and Deeside
• 1 - Lagan Valley
• 1 - South Staffordshire
• 1 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 1 - Sutton and Cheam
• 1 - Sutton Coldfield
• 1 - Islington North
• 1 - Edmonton
• 1 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 1 - Cambridge
• 1 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 1 - Epsom and Ewell
• 1 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 1 - Tooting
• 1 - Calder Valley
• 1 - Torridge and West Devon
• 1 - Truro and Falmouth
• 1 - Bury North
• 1 - Streatham
• 1 - East Hampshire
• 1 - Derby North
• 1 - Derbyshire Dales
• 1 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 1 - South Cambridgeshire
• 1 - Dudley North
• 1 - Chipping Barnet
• 1 - Somerton and Frome
• 1 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 1 - Slough
• 1 - Cheltenham
• 1 - Chelmsford
• 1 - Shipley
• 1 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 1 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 1 - Sheffield South East
• 1 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 1 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 1 - Redcar
• 1 - Bolton West
• 1 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 1 - Wolverhampton South West
• 1 - North West Norfolk
• 1 - North West Leicestershire
• 1 - Bishop Auckland
• 1 - Yeovil
• 1 - York Central
• 1 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 1 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 1 - Horsham
• 1 - North Warwickshire
• 1 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 1 - East Londonderry
• 1 - Fermanagh and South Tyrone
• 1 - Wimbledon
• 1 - Harrow West
• 1 - Wansbeck
• 1 - Broadland
• 1 - Garston and Halewood
• 1 - Gloucester
• 1 - Bristol East
• 1 - North East Somerset
• 1 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 1 - Halifax
• 1 - Bradford South
• 1 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 1 - West Ham
• 1 - Harborough
• 1 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 1 - Westminster North
• 1 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 1 - Newry and Armagh

Signatures by Region

• 281 - South East
• 217 - North West
• 185 - East of England
• 168 - East Midlands
• 166 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 153 - West Midlands
• 146 - South West
• 134 - London
• 95 - North East
• 81 - Wales
• 67 - Scotland
• 21 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 1,723 - United Kingdom
• 6 - United States
• 5 - Spain
• 4 - France
• 3 - South Africa
• 3 - Canada
• 3 - Australia
• 2 - Gibraltar
• 2 - Ireland
• 2 - Greece
• 2 - Germany
• 1 - Belgium
• 1 - Thailand
• 1 - Philippines
• 1 - New Zealand
• 1 - Netherlands
• 1 - Isle of Man
• 1 - Bulgaria
• 1 - Hong Kong
• 1 - Cyprus
• 1 - Austria