Petitions tagged with '18 Years'

• Regulate the fees that letting agents can charge for reference fees
  More people are having to rent privately these days. Letting agents charge an astronomical amount for "reference fees" .Some agents in my area charge up to £200 per person over 18 years that will be living in the property These fees are also non [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 11 August 2014, Signatures: 6
• wipe criminal record for under 25s
  I am a 20 year old male, grew up in a normal working class enviroment. I began to go about with the wrong people at a young age and took part in minor offences which include assult, criminal damage and motor offences. This all happend before i was 18 [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 9 January 2015, Signatures: 5
• Save Our East Coast Main Line Train Service
  The government intends to re-privatise the East Coast rail service in 2015, despite two previous private sector failures. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 5 August 2014, Signatures: 1078
• To ban by law any offender of child abuse and other offences, working with children.
  To implement a law to ban any offender cautioned or convicted, or placed on the sex offenders register, of offences against children including possession of, or downloading of explicit child photos and or film of a sexual or degrading nature, from [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 8 January 2014, Signatures: 67
• Children to be classed as ADULTS from the age of 18 years old.
  To clarify when a child can be classed as an adult with regards to payments to the CSA. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 11 June 2014, Signatures: 12
• Dealing Illegal Drugs to Young People under 18 Years of age
  Illegal drugs have potential to be life changing and Young People are more vulnerable to the effects of illegal drugs and require more protection in law. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 14 May 2014, Signatures: 3
• School buses
  Now that going to school until 17 [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 29 April 2014, Signatures: 138
• Ensure that 'adult' prices are paid only by those officially recognised as adults by the United Kingdom's law, i.e. Anyone 18 years old and above.
  'Adult' prices- as charged by varies companies, corporations and businesses- should apply only to those recognised by UK law, i.e. Persons aged 18 years old and above. Anyone under 18 years of age should be recognised as 'children' and therefore pay [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 19 November 2013, Signatures: 27
• Freeze Payment to the EU
  If a company's auditors refused to sign off its accounts for 18 years, assets and accounts would be frozen, the board under criminal investigation, the company would cease trading; how is it that in the exact scenario the EU is allowed to continue [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 14 November 2013, Signatures: 36
• APD MUST BE REFORMED
  Over the last 18 years APD has grown from an orgninal £5 for flights to European cities and £10 for everywhere else, to now being £12-£26 for flying to Europe and up to £188. To fly everywhere else. Is this fair on us? Although the tax does [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 6 November 2013, Signatures: 8
• Free all those serving the indeterminate sentence for the protection of the public (IPP). Abolish the life licence,
  A young man was sentenced to two and half year tariff for street robbery+2 in in Jan 2006 aged 18. Seven years later he is still in jail as the judge added the ipp which has no date of release and no light at the end of the tunnel. It is a babaric [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 2 November 2013, Signatures: 118
• Increase the age at which physical education is compulsory in schools to 18 years old.
  Due to the fact that in Britain, statistics show that Obesity and the number of people that stop participation in Physical education after the age of 16 are on the rise. I would like the government to overview this and change it so that the age to [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 11 September 2013, Signatures: 5
• Justice for Ferhat Gerçek
  In October 2007, Ferhat Gerçek, 18 years old, was shot in the back by police which left him paralysed. This happened over a dispute on the sale of a magazine. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 22 June 2013, Signatures: 5
• Stop kids from watching internet pornography
  I want every ISP and major search engine to make watching soft internet pornography harder for any persons under the age of 18 years because this kind of material shouldn't of been heard of by a for an example, an 9.5 year old. And by so doing this, [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 17 May 2013, Signatures: 18
• Soap Opers and Reality TV Shows
  The Government should introduce an age limit of 18 years old for Soap Operas and Reality TV Shows, which would ban under 18's from watching them. It should'nt be right for children, who can also be influenced by inappropriate scenes whether there [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 16 October 2012, Signatures: 1
• this House condemns those countries which allow the murder, victimisation or ill treatment of lawyers undertaking their moral and professional duties
  To draw attention to the number of lawyers subjected to abuse, humiliation and murder in representing their clients. The Chinese lawyer, Chen Guangcheng, has been placed under house arrest by the Chinese government. He was “sentenced” for [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 26 March 2013, Signatures: 11
• this House condemns those countries which allow the murder, victimisation or ill treatment of lawyers undertaking their moral and professional duties
  To draw attention to the number of lawyers subjected to abuse, humiliation and murder in representing their clients. The Chinese lawyer, Chen Guangcheng, has been placed under house arrest by the Chinese government. He was “sentenced” for [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 26 March 2013, Signatures: 60
• Reduce the age of full minimum wage!
  Min wage for somebody of 18 years of age - £4.98/hr Min wage for somebody of 21 years of age - £6.08/hr I would like to petition to increase the minimum wage of an 18 year old to that of a 21 year old. I am 19 years old which means I am adult in my [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 16 February 2013, Signatures: 8
• Tackling the Deficit Fairly
  In order to tackle the deficit, I propose that the Government impose a 50p per week tax for everyone over 18 years of age to pay, whether they're on the out of work benefits or not, until the deficit has been cleared. Then we would really be "all in [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 11 January 2013, Signatures: 2
• Reduce teenage pregnancy. Introduce a minimum age of 18 years until a person can claim benefits for themselves or their child.
  Introduce a minimum age of 18 years until a person can claim benefits for themselves or their child. Ban free antenatal care on the NHS for under 18's. The majority of parents under the age of 18, do not remain with the father, have a huge burden [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 27 April 2012, Signatures: 3
• Make parents liable for their children
  Parents have a duty of care for their children, to protect their children from harm, and to protect third parties from the actions of their children. This duty extends from 0 to 18 years. Legislation shall be passed to allow HM representatives and [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 23 August 2012, Signatures: 5
• Child Benefit Allowance
  Child Benefit and Housing Benefit payments should only be available to parents who are over 18 years old, and who have completed a minimum of one year in employment in the UK. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 8 August 2012, Signatures: 34
• Protect Children online
  Make pornogrophy websits use the pre fix xxx. insted of www. so they are not on the mainstream internet and can be completely screened out by software and internet providers and phone network providers protecting young people under 18 years old. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 17 August 2012, Signatures: 8
• Increase University Maintenance Loan
  Currently a maintenance loan of around £3,500 is available to any student who begins studying at University, irrespective of parental income. If parents earn less than around £50,000 then this amount increases gradually, to a maximum of £4,950. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 15 August 2012, Signatures: 5
• Shake up of the CSA
  If an absent Parent hasn't paid the child support that is owed to the children the CSA should compensate what is left once the child is 18 years old. The debt is then owed to the Child Support Agency and not the guardian. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 8 August 2012, Signatures: 13
• Make mass-distribution of naked child images illegal
  Mass distribution of non-sexual naked (showing genitalia) images of children should be made illegal. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 1
• criminals 18 years and over should be sent to adult prisons
  criminals 18 years and over should be sent to adult jails and not young offenders institutions. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 1
• Improving parliamentary representation
  In order to make MPs more representative of their constituents and to increase the experience of real life that an MP brings to the Commons the Electoral Admissions Act 2006 should be amended in 2 respects: [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 1
• Do not lower the voting age below 18 years for any future election or referendum
  The age at which a person is considered an adult should be standardised at 18 years. This should apply to all regulations. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 6
• Deprivation of citizenship by virtue of birth
  The citizen that goes abroad to fight and trained and the suicide that killed innocent citizen and destroyed properties their citizenship and passport withdrawn. A truly UK citizen will not killed his compatriots and will not set his own house [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 1
• Reduce the age limit for unrestricted motorcycles
  The age limit to drive HGV/LGV has been reduced from 21 to 18 years of age. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 677
• Lower the age from 25 to 18 years of age for cervical cancer screening.
  A lot of my friends and friends of friends have been wrongly diagnosed or dismissed obvious symptoms for cervical cancer. I know age 25 is too high and in thousands of cases have left it too late for the screening. This is one of many reasons why it [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 23 March 2016, Signatures: 22
• Re open the Railway Line from Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire to Alton Towers.
  My Background is I Have Worked on the Railway for 18 years and I Find if this Railway is opened it will ceate jobs and boost the Economy for Stoke-on-Trent and cut Down on Traffic through Alton and make a better transport service into Alton Towers. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 14 April 2016, Signatures: 214
• Increase in support for mental health, for UK University students.
  •NUS has found that of 1,200 higher education students surveyed, 20 per cent consider themselves to have a mental health problem, while 13 per cent have suicidal thoughts. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 16 May 2016, Signatures: 23
• Do not allow 16- and 17-year-olds to take part in the EU referendum.
  Peers have backed calls to give 16- and 17-year-olds the right to take part in the UK's EU referendum. Peers are a body of people who have not been voted into position by the UK electorate and should have no say what so ever in who should be able to [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 22 May 2016, Signatures: 32
• Increase the bereavement compensation following a fatal accident
  The price of a life in England & Wales is only worth £12,980. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 4 August 2016, Signatures: 146
• Clean slate for juvenile offences commited before 18 years old. A second chance
  I believe it's unfair to hold mistakes people make as a minor/juvenile to stay with them for the rest of their life. The DBS filtering systerm is simply not good enough, they have been judged already lets not keep judging them 20 years later. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 7 September 2016, Signatures: 11
• Lower the cervical cancer smear test age to 18
  Over the years on the news and media the country has taken witness to many unfortunate undiagnosed cases of cervical cancer. Many girls considered 'underage' losing their lives to cervical cancer because they are deemed a lesser risk... Previous [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 9 September 2016, Signatures: 444
• Stop the deportation of Syrian asylum seekers
  Faisal, 18 years old, and his father Ahmad are Syrians who arrived in the UK to seek asylum in June 2015. They are both facing deportation to Hungary where they were forced to claim asylum under duress. A considerable proportion of those returned to [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 1 October 2016, Signatures: 781
• Allow a Victim Surcharge Discretion when Sentencing Youths
  Young people appearing in the Criminal Justice System, may be resident in Care Homes, from poor backgrounds or without the means to discharge the level of Victim Surcharge that MUST now be applied to every person when convicted. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 12 October 2016, Signatures: 155
• Publish all UK accounts in regard to EU & the Commons debate & scrutinise them.
  To make an informed decision at the referendum [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 26 November 2016, Signatures: 16
• Legal minimum age to enter into marriage in UK to change from 16 to 18 years.
  Legal minimum age to enter into a marriage in England and Wales is 16 years, although this requires parental consent if a participant is under 18 years. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 1 January 1970, Signatures: 11
• Lower the legal drinking age to 17
  Lowering the legal drinking age could reduce & tackle the problem of binge drinking in the UK - as well as help young people socially as young school leavers can find it difficult to find friends of a similar age in the workplace. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 1 January 1970, Signatures: 6
• Make children and young people in care's funding go up to the age of 21!
  People who have been through the care system will understand....The need for support at 18 years old but none being accessible because there is no funding. We need to fight to change this! [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 1 January 1970, Signatures: 13
• Mandatory First Aid training and certificate to all students 15-18 years old
  Mandatory First Aid training is excellent as no one ever knows if or when a medical situation will arise, therefore these skills will be necessary in order to save lives. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 1 January 1970, Signatures: 21
• Increase the budget for crime and justice and hire more police to reduce crime
  Due to aggressive funding cuts and large decreases in the number of police officers during the coalition and Conservative governments, the crime rate has been rapidly increasing. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 6 April 2018, Signatures: 6
• Raise the legal sex age to 18 years of age
  Under 18 years of age we are classed as children therefore children can not make a decision on sexual intercourse as they will not have the correct mentality and full understanding to do so. This will also allow for children to get through further [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 16 May 2018, Signatures: 10
• Change immigration Rules and accept full time study in UK as proof of English
  My son is 18 years old and has 7 years of full time study in UK. He is first year at University now and has ABBBB in Higher Mathematics,English,Physics,Chemistry and Biology.His application for British Citizenship has being refused because had No [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 17 May 2018, Signatures: 59
• Repeal the April 2017 changes to Bereavement Support
  Bereavement benefit changed in April from financially supporting the widowed with dependants until the child was 18 years, to now only 18 months after the death of the parent (the 'one off' payment of just over £3000 doesn't even cover the cost of a [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 11 June 2018, Signatures: 7
• Fund bus passes for 16 to 18 years olds who are still in full time education
  Why does the government insists that our children stay in education until they are 18 but will not fund the transportation to get to sixth form or college after they leave school at 16. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 8 July 2018, Signatures: 23
• Raise the minimum wage for workers under 18 years old.
  The minimum wage for all will rise in April of 2018, but that of under 18s by a lesser amount. Young people between the ages of 16 and 18 may sustain themselves for a variety of reasons, and it is limiting, unnecessary and frankly insulting to be [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 16 September 2018, Signatures: 13