Top Petitions

• Pay health care students for placement hours.
  Pay a basic living wage to healthcare students who have to do 37.5 hours on placement. Students should receive a fair wage to help support them during their studies as part time work is not always an option and so money is very tight. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 2 April 2018, Signatures: 1274
• Apologize for Balfour Declaration and offer compensation to Palestinians
  The Balfour Declaration was unfairly made to give away a land the UK didn't possess, making an entire nation homeless in 1948. If Germany compensates Holocaust survivors and their descendants, then the UK must do the same for Nakba survivors & their [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 24 February 2016, Signatures: 1274
• Save Slate Meadow (Wooburn Green/Beaconsfield)
  Wycombe District Council published the Local Plan in Febraury 2014. In it they identify Slate Meadow as a Reserve Site for the creation of homes. In 1990 a planning application (W/90/5423/00) for the site was rejected in part on the grounds that the [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 19 August 2014, Signatures: 1274
• Pay full financial reparations to the victims of the slave trade.
  The countries that suffered during the slave trade not only built the Britain that we live in today for free, but MOST of what we call the 'developed West'. The descendants of slavery are still traumatised by social, psychological and financial [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 2 April 2016, Signatures: 1273
• Cardiac screening in 14-35 year olds
  Prevention is better than cure. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 14 May 2014, Signatures: 1273
• Declare the result of the EU referendum null & void.
  Voters may have been influenced by false information sent to them by the Vote Leave campaign, whose campaign leaflet claimed that the cost of UK membership of the EU is £350M per week, which is false. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 7 January 2017, Signatures: 1270
• Install CCTV cameras outside EVERY school in the country to improve road safety.
  We are a large, outstanding primary school in Erith, in the London Borough of Bexley. Parking on zigzag lines is dangerous and compromises the safety of children travelling to and from school. Our aim is to make parking on zigzag lines carry a [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 26 May 2016, Signatures: 1267
• Izzy's Wish (Giving Families Hope)
  My daughter Isabella now aged 2 is one of many children in the UK diagnosed with a life threatening illness everyday. We found out she had Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in March 2013. This life threatening diagnosis forced me to stop work and take [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 24 March 2015, Signatures: 1266
• Allow only pre-stunned slaughter.
  We call for an end to slaughter without pre-stunning for all animals. EU and UK law requires all animals to be pre-stunned before slaughter to render them insensible to pain until death supervenes. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 25 November 2016, Signatures: 1264
• Deport criminals originating from outside the UK, and ban them from reentering.
  Our prisons are already full to breaking point and something needs to be done. Anyone beaking the law in this country that is reported to Court, from motoring offenses, to drunken and disordererly, be immediately sent to their homeland and legally [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 7 February 2016, Signatures: 1262
• EEA Winter Fuel Allowance should remain for Mainland France expats
  It would seem that if one were to include British overseas properties in the temperature test then no-one in the UK would qualify for Winter Fuel Allowance. Therefore, it is not only unfair to include French overseas properties to calculate [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 1262
• Make sex education compulsory, with lessons on consent and sexual orientations
  In February, Nicky Morgan said that sex education would no longer be compulsory. Yet it is vital that young people are informed about practicing safe sex, what consent is and its importance and sexual orientations in order to prevent unwanted [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 3 December 2016, Signatures: 1261
• Retain Consultant Maternity, Neonatal and Childrens Services (inc Oncology) at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in Shropshire
  Under current relocation proposals put forward by the CEO all Consultant Maternity services will move from RSH Shrewsbury to PRH [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 13 April 2012, Signatures: 1261
• Create a fourth emergency service for people with mental health problems.
  Patients with mental health problems are being failed since the abolition of long-term mental health hospitals and the introduction of care in the community. Care in the community is only available Monday to Friday 9-5, after which the Police, [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 2 February 2017, Signatures: 1260
• Dedicate more funding and resources to support male victims of domestic abuse.
  In the UK men are estimated to make up between 1/3 and 1/2 of domestic abuse victims yet despite this there is little to no funding or support for them in the UK. Local authorities receive no money to help them and there are no publicly funded [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 12 October 2016, Signatures: 1258
• Leave the Freedom of Information act alone.
  The government has setup a commission to look to restrict or remove all rights under the Freedom of Information act - the act needs to be left alone and commission disbanded. We have a right to open government and this should not be removed. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 22 January 2016, Signatures: 1257
• Increase the speed limit on UK Motorways
  An increase of the maximum speed limit on public Motorways from 70MPH to 100MPH. The last time this was changed was in 1965 when most cars were barely capable of the maximum. Most accidents are not related to speed and are more likely poor driving or [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 4 February 2012, Signatures: 1257
• "Add animal crush video to the Protection of Children Act 1978 as a level five offence"
  There is no law against animal crush videos in the UK. We do realize that the UK has, previously, prosecuted individuals under the laws against basic obscenity for creating such videos, however, the law does not include the matter of their [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 5 September 2012, Signatures: 1257
• Havering council to retain an ice rink in Romord.
  Havering Council are pulling down Romford Ice Rink and selling the land for retail.They intend to build another leisure center at a new site with no guarantee of a new ice rink. The current ice rink is home to Romford Skating club which is currently [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 12 February 2012, Signatures: 1256
• Parliament's vote on the Brexit deal must include an option to remain in the EU.
  A lesser of two evils choice between a bad deal and no deal is not acceptable. Our country deserves better than Hobson's choice, and our MPs should be allowed to vote with their conscience to deliver what they believe is best for the country. [...]
  Status: open, Closing Date: Thursday 17 May 2018, Signatures: 1255
• Abolish the Life Times Allowance (LTA) on pension savings
  The LTA is amount you can have in your pension pot before you start being taxed at the excess at 55%. It is not calculated on the amount you contribute to your pension. It is calculated on what you have in it on retirement. This depends on your rate [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 1254
• Shepperton Eco Park Incinerator
  The proposed plans to build an incinerator at Charlton Lane tip / Shepperton are being forced upon local residents to accept, without any objections. This incinerator technology is not proven as successful however the local residents have NOT been [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 1253
• Every Child in Need - keep minimum standards for vulnerable children
  Wide-ranging changes are proposed to the legal framework which protects children in need. Ministers say these changes involve cutting 'red tape', allowing local authorities more freedom to meet children's needs. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 26 April 2013, Signatures: 1253
• Licensing and regulating sunbed businesses
  England worryingly trails behind the rest of the UK when it comes to making sure sunbed facilities educate users about the risks of sunbed use. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 24 July 2014, Signatures: 1253
• Amend Forestry Byelaws to aid the rescue of injured animals to prevent suffering
  Amend Statutory instrument 1982 no 648 the forestry commission byelaw xviii to allow exceptions for animal rescues to assist injured animals. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 9 November 2016, Signatures: 1252
• Increase the funding for settings for free childcare/education for 2-4 year olds
  All 3 to 4-year-olds (and some 2 years olds) in England can get 570 hours of free early education or childcare per year. However, the amount the government pays early years settings is well below what it costs in real terms, meaning settings are [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 21 October 2016, Signatures: 1252
• Abolish VED (generally known as Road Tax) on all Powered 2 Wheelers
  Motorcycles/scooters reduce congestion, use less parking land space, cause less wear & tear to the roads than other forms of sustainable modes of transport. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 26 July 2016, Signatures: 1252
• Reinstate the maternity and children's ward at the Alexandra hospital Redditch
  My first 2 children was born a the Alexandra hospital Redditch and when my 2 daughters had several seizures the paramedics,consultants and ward staff was exceptional and these services are being stripped away one by one and with the population of [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 8 February 2017, Signatures: 1251
• Accept lone child refugees who have already made the journey to Europe
  The UK Government refuses to take in any refugees who have already made the journey to Europe. However, there are currently 3,000 lone child refugees who have already made this dangerous journey and Save The Children has suggested the government [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 10 March 2016, Signatures: 1251
• Stop Cartoons and film against Islam in USA
  In USA a film"Innocence of Muslims" has been launched recently against Islam .We condemn the loss of innocent lives during the protests against this film.Muslims respect all the religions and Holy Prophets. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 17 September 2013, Signatures: 1251
• Petition against the closure of rural village schools
  We are petitioning against the proposed closures of rural village schools. The introduction of a national formula for the funding of schools in April 2013 is reasoned for many of the proposed closures. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 7 February 2014, Signatures: 1250
• Operational allowance for soldiers in Sierra Leone
  Operational allowance to be approved for soldeirs on operational GRITROCK, in Sierra Leone. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 1248
• Review the National Lottery
  Camelot have ruined the National Lottery by doubling the cost to play and making it more difficult to win. They hide how unattractive lotto has become to play behind spin of it being "more exciting for players". It's time the license was handed to [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 29 June 2016, Signatures: 1247
• Implement the findings of the Lloyd Inquiry into Gulf War Veterans illnesses.
  In 2004 Lord Lloyd of Berwick was asked to chair an Independent Public Inquiry into the illnesses of over 6,000 veterans of the first Gulf War. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 25 February 2016, Signatures: 1246
• Remove the Thameslink franchise from Govia Thameslink now, not in 2021.
  Govia Thameslink Railway hold the franchise for the Thameslink rail service until 2021. Commuters suffer from driver shortages, old trains, short formations and regular cancellations. The franchise should be cancelled and handed over to TfL. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 22 July 2016, Signatures: 1245
• Abellio Greater Anglia customers require a reliable and comfortable service
  The service provided to rail passengers by Abellio Greater Anglia must be urgently called in by the Department of Transport and reviewed by representatives of passengers and independent rail experts as well as incumbents to ensure that the track, [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 23 June 2015, Signatures: 1245
• the rights of all stillborn babies to be given a proper birth certificate and a death certificate regardless of gestation and better support
  The cause that launched a thousand balloons [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 12 August 2012, Signatures: 1245
• Make Cyber Bullying a crime
  This petition calls for the goverment action on Cyberbullying. Cyberbullying needs to be clearly defined and current legislation covering harssment and malicious communications needs to be amended to include Cyberbullying. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 2 February 2013, Signatures: 1245
• Keep the Free Movement of People Between the UK and the EU
  Britain has voted to leave the EU. Negotiations will soon begin to decide how Britain and the EU go forward over the next few years. We ask that as part of that negotiation, any Prime Minister will ensure that the free movement of people between the [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 1 January 2017, Signatures: 1244
• Demand transparency on the TTIP agreement and its consequences for Britain.
  TTIP is a non democratic, secret, trade agreement working in favour of multi national corporations, giving chemical, tobacco and big pharma companies etc more freedom to operate across continents. Who are they accountable to, will they pay their [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 4 February 2016, Signatures: 1244
• Arrest Tony Blair and David Cameron for war crimes on the basis of Law.
  Iraq War,Invasion of Afghanistan,The bombing of Syria. All war is Unlawful/Illegal unless both sides can be proven to be the aggressor that is the Law. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 21 March 2016, Signatures: 1243
• Respond to the petition to debate a vote of no confidence in Jeremy Hunt
  The petition "To debate a vote of no confidence in Health Secretary the Right Hon Jeremy Hunt" received over 190,000 signatures. The government response did not address this petition. We think the government should be forced to actually respond to [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 3 February 2016, Signatures: 1243
• Call for a fairer economy
  We believe that the UK should have a fairer economy in which all participants enjoy a more proportional share of success. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 5 August 2012, Signatures: 1243
• Drop the October Beer Tax
  We the undersigned believe that the higher rate of tax levied on beers brewed at 7.5% or above will have an adverse effect not only on small innovative British Breweries, but also on the independent retailers and local pubs who stock their produce. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 14 January 2012, Signatures: 1240
• INCREASE the number of Staff Nurses on wards: Nurses WANT to provide excellent patient care so make it possible
  The Francis Report has really opened a can of worms that needed to be out there. But the vast majority of nurses are caring, wonderful people that really want to make the patient experience as positive as possible. It's the 'must meet targets' and [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 28 March 2014, Signatures: 1240
• Food Banks
  Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City University and a former adviser to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the World Health Organisation,: [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 9 May 2014, Signatures: 1240
• Canvey Island Essex Flooding
  This petition is to request a review of the drainage infarstructure and pumping systems on Canvey island in Essex, following 2 floods in the past 12 months. We would also like to know who is responsible for these systems, and what can be done to [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 22 October 2014, Signatures: 1239
• Abolition of the Monarchy
  I am petitioning for the establishment of a modern, progressive state, based on the civic rights of tolerance, respect and equality of every citizen of this country. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 5 August 2012, Signatures: 1238
• Processed and red meat products should carry a health warning ‘may cause cancer’
  In October 2015, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that processed meat products cause cancer and were classified as Group 1 carcinogens – substances causing cancer to humans. Red meat was classified as probably carcinogenic to humans [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 18 May 2016, Signatures: 1237
• Increase Funding for Basketball in England
  We, the undersigned, believe that Sport England's recent allocation of £6.75million of funding for basketball in England up until 2017 is insufficient and should be greatly increased. By comparison, the sport of netball is set to receive [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 20 March 2013, Signatures: 1236
• Retrial for Marine Sergeant Blackman
  Marine Sergeant Blackman's original trial was biased and unfair. He was "tried" in a military court, where the jury was purely military and his conviction was biased on political/career motives. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 28 May 2015, Signatures: 1235
• Abolish European reptile and amphibian ban.
  Changes are soon coming to reptile keeping in the UK. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 22 March 2013, Signatures: 1235
• Dual the A1 from Morpeth to Berwick
  My son, Alex, died in a head-on collision in November 2011. Dualling the A1 would help to prevent families, like mine, from losing loved ones. In the past year there have been two fatalities on the same stretch of road. This needs to stop. The [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 6 December 2012, Signatures: 1235
• Speed camera for Somerset Road, Ashford
  I live on Somerset Road in Ashford, Kent. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 3 October 2014, Signatures: 1234
• one punch murders/one punch can kill.
  we want the government to impose longer jail sentences upon people who carry out these vicious and mostly unprovoked attacks. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 21 May 2013, Signatures: 1233
• Ban the export of live farmed animals
  Since we have now decided rightly or wrongly to leave the EU, we the undersigned believe that the UK should demonstrate that we care about animal welfare and ban the export of live farmed animals. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 29 December 2016, Signatures: 1232
• Free prescriptions for Vasculitis patients
  I was diagnosed with the disease Vasculitis in 2011. Vasculitis is an inflammation of blood vessels causing them to become blocked and end organs to fail or be damaged as a result. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 1231
• SUPPORT DEMOCRACY IN EGYPT: BOYCOTT PUPPET GOVERNMENT INSTALLED AFTER THE MILITARY COUP
  We demand the British Government to clearly denounce the Military Coup in Egypt and to stop all co-operation with the Egyptian Military and the Puppet Government installed by them. They suspended the Egyptian constitution, ousted and arrested a [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 24 January 2014, Signatures: 1230
• Burial of King Richard the III at a catholic burial site
  The remains of Richard III have been discovered and exhumed. The suggestion is that he will be buried in Leicester Cathedral. However, it seems wholly inappropriate and disrespectful to bury the former Monarch in the grounds of a church of which he [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 13 September 2013, Signatures: 1228
• Call to the Government to halt cuts to universal credit.
  The roll out of universal credit means that anyone who has a significant change of circumstance will be forced onto universal credit. In April this will be cut for the vast majority of single parents and working families. With cuts estimated at [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 14 July 2016, Signatures: 1227
• Will the Northern Ireland motorist suffer disproportionately from the removal of Local Driver & Vehicle Agency services and could crime rates rise?
  This petition calls on the the Prime Minister and the Government (through the responsible Minister, Stephen Hammond) to revisit the proposed merger of Venicle Licensing Services, as conducted both by DVLA in GB & DVA in Northern Ireland, under a [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 14 November 2013, Signatures: 1227
• Ofsted is not fit for purpose - an independent review is needed
  We claim that OFSTED is not fit for purpose. We call for an independent review of the process by which schools are held to account, a review that is university-led and free from political and commercial interests. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 21 April 2014, Signatures: 1226
• islamic centre
  Petition to stop further islamic faith centres being opened in areas already served by other islamic centres within an already reasonable distance. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 1224
• justice for mothers and babies who suffered at the hands of Queens maternity unit Romford
  guidelines and procedures being changed or dramatically improved in order to prevent the ill care being received at Queens hospital Maternity unit Romford Essex, I would like government to address this matter with a public inquiry as to why many [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 3 October 2012, Signatures: 1223
• Dartmoor pony meat for human consumption
  South West Equine Protection want the government to take a stand and enforce removal of stallions or vasectomising stallions grazing on Dartmoor Commons to reduce the numbers of ponies running on the commons. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 1221
• ESTABLISH A ROYAL COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE CHILD ABUSE IN THE UK
  We the undersigned call for the setting up of a Royal Commission to investigate child abuse, including organised child grooming, child prostitution and paedophilia, in the UK. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 23 April 2013, Signatures: 1219
• Make sure that all councils give every British homeless person a home
  In this country right now, there are too many British people who are homeless either through no fault of their own or by not paying extortionate amounts of rent money. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 29 August 2016, Signatures: 1218
• BBC coverage of the Scottish Independence referendum should be impartial and balanced
  The upcoming 2014 Scottish independence referendum is possibly the biggest decision facing this country in generations. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 2 January 2014, Signatures: 1216
• Penalise any MP who jeers or shouts during a speech by any other MP.
  During any debate in the House of Commons we feel that there should be no shouting or jeering by anyone whilst an MP is speaking. We feel that this is unsatisfactory behaviour by our elected MPs and unbecoming of a member of parliament. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 11 August 2016, Signatures: 1214
• Pernicious Anaemia - Remove restrictions on Vitamin B12 jabs
  The damage this illness causes include terrible depression, anxiety, personality changes, memory loss and irreversible neurological damage if not untreated. Many need more B12 to alleviate symptoms but are refused access to it due to restrictions on [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 9 May 2016, Signatures: 1213
• Title 'Architect' to include 'Architectural' & 'Architecture'
  The current wording of the Architects Act 1997 does not effectively protect the title 'architect'. We propose a change to the definition in Part IV; Section 20 of the act to prevent a person or company from using of the terms 'architecture' and [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 20 November 2014, Signatures: 1209
• Tough Sentences for Animal Abuse
  The petition calls for tough sentencing for cases of animal abuse and animal murder. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 3 September 2014, Signatures: 1208
• Introduction of proportional representation in time for next general election
  First past the post system is out of date and unfair. This system no longer represents the nature of modern political opinion [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 1 May 2016, Signatures: 1206
• Stop Widnes,Cheshire becoming part of Merseyside in April 2014
  Widnes, Cheshire originally Lancashire is to become part of Merseyside as of 1 April 2014. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 23 March 2014, Signatures: 1204
• Stop this investigation of Barry Singleton. Cleared in 2005 but being investigated again??
  I find myself disgusted and angry at the fact a friend and former colleague is under investigation for a second time, 9 years after he was cleared of any wrong doing whilst on operations in Southern Iraq in 2003. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 1203
• Raise awareness of the symptoms of Type 1 diabetes in the UK
  The number of children being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes is rising at an alarming rate, especially in the under 5s. Unfortunately many people are unaware of the symptoms. This needs to change, children are dying due to mis-diagnoses. We, as a [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 27 July 2016, Signatures: 1200
• Save Goring Gap from Network Rail's current electrification through two AONBs
  Network Rail is installing large, inappropriately prominent metal masts and gantries throughout the Goring Gap as part of its electrification programme. We ask that they devise & install a less intrusive, more sensitive design better suited to two [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 16 April 2016, Signatures: 1200
• Lower age range for bowel screening with past history of polyps
  My 33 year old husband went into A&E with full bowel obstruction on 3rd September 2013. He had a 6cm cancerous tumour. He had visited A&E twice before and his GP twice, both times they had sent him home. He was 4 days away from starting a new job and [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 19 March 2015, Signatures: 1198
• Bring Animal Welfare into the School Curriculum
  It is becoming all to common now to see on social media sights people filming children hitting, pulling and pushing animals around. Not only do more people need educated on how to cope with animals and young children in the family home, but the [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 27 July 2016, Signatures: 1197
• Improve road worker safety and awareness
  Improve road worker safety and awareness by significantly increasing the amount of content covered in both theory and practicle driving exams. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 13 September 2013, Signatures: 1196
• V.A.T Exempt Health & Fitness
  The Government should abolish VAT on all health and fitness products and services including: exercise classes, personal training, health clubs, gyms, leisure centers, and any activities, that will protect, preserve and enhance the well being [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 6 June 2015, Signatures: 1195
• Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act 2010 [EU]
  Please support the work of International Cruise Victims with our endeavours to introduce new UK and EU laws to protect passengers and crew on cruise vessels. This important legislation will follow on from the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 4 August 2012, Signatures: 1195
• Introduce a tax on waste incineration
  The Treasury should introduce a waste incineraton tax at 50% of the rate of Landfilling tax. Such a tax would prevent waste incineration undermining recycling. The tax could raise around £200m a year. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 15 May 2012, Signatures: 1194
• Protect Our Health - Make Britain’s Towns Pesticide-Free
  Every year, hundreds of tonnes of toxic pesticides are used on the streets, parks, schools and open spaces of our towns and cities. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 29 March 2016, Signatures: 1193
• We require a footbridge over the A19 at Ingleby Arncliffe on the C2C.
  The brainchild of Alfred Wainwright, the Coast to Coast is a 192 mile walk from St. Bees to Robin Hood's Bay. Crossing three National Parks it attracts almost 10'000 walkers per year. The crossing of the A19 at Ingleby Arncliffe requires a footbridge [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 30 January 2016, Signatures: 1192
• Carers Allowance should not stop for the Carer when the child they are caring for is admitted to hospital
  Currently If the child under the age of 16 you look after goes into hospital their carer will stop receiving carers allowance after 12 weeks of admissions. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 1192
• Tax breaks of up to twenty five per cent for UK entrepreneurs
  RSM Tenon calls on HM Treasury to provide tax credits of up to 25% for entrepreneurs who take on additional employees. This would reflect their personal essential contribution to the UK economy. Entrepreneurs and private businesses are a source of [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 April 2012, Signatures: 1191
• Standardised Made in Britain logo that can be used by all businesses manufacturing in the UK
  We would like there to be a standardised Made in Britain logo, similar to the red tractor logo that is used on foods, that can be used across all consumer goods indicating that a significant proportion of a product has been made in Britain. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 1 March 2014, Signatures: 1191
• To allow me to live on my own land.
  I live in a double decker bus. Last year I bought a 5 acre paddock in order to run it as a smallholding. I am currently producing good qualitiy, local meat and vegetables in a totally ethical and environmentally friendly way. All my power comes [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 10 March 2013, Signatures: 1190
• To allow a medically trained person of our choice assess us for P I P
  To many people are loosing vital benefits as we believe and have proof from reports that capita and the like are lying in their reports saying things we have not said and putting wrong answers, its against our human rights under the maladministration [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 26 April 2016, Signatures: 1188
• REFUSED ASYLUM SEEKERS AT RISK ON RETURN TO THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
  Stop the torture of vulnerable Congolese asylum seekers now. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 2 June 2012, Signatures: 1188
• STOP all SATs testing in KS1+2 AND Help TEACHERS make decisions about EDUCATION
  SATs do not improve pupils’ learning. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 26 August 2016, Signatures: 1187
• Right to register the birth of a pre-term baby (pre 24 weeks)
  Currently, only babies born after 24 weeks gestation can have their birth or still birth registered. A baby born stillborn, regardless of the circumstances, before 24 weeks cannot be registered and therefore goes unacknowledged by the country. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 2 November 2012, Signatures: 1186
• Make all letting agent fees other than 'refundable deposit' and 'rent' unlawful.
  Say no to administration fees. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 13 September 2013, Signatures: 1186
• To impose an immediate two-way arms embargo between the UK and Israel
  Trading arms with Israel makes the UK complicit in Israel’s continuing violations of human rights and international law. [...]
  Status: open, Closing Date: Tuesday 9 October 2018, Signatures: 1183
• stop unfair re-assessments for disabled people
  Stop the unfair and cruel re-assessments via ATOS for disabled people currently on Incapacity Benefit. ESA is a flawed benefit, and puts terrible pressure and stress on vulnerable people, putting people who cannot work on lesser benefits and applying [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 12 August 2012, Signatures: 1183
• NO TO PROPOSED EXTENSION OF CMA CHEADLE
  We are against any future development of the existing CMA site on Wilmslow Road, Cheadle. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 11 October 2014, Signatures: 1181
• Lift the Lee Rigby Media Blackout Ban
  We as UK citizens have the right to free speech and a free press. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 20 February 2014, Signatures: 1181
• Save St Raphaels Hospice
  We the undersigned call on the Foreign Office to ask the Vatican to intervene to protect the ethos of St Anthony's hospital and its special relationship with St Raphael's hospice, and encourage the Daughters of the Cross to drop plans to sell the [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 18 July 2014, Signatures: 1179
• Banning of Bob Martin Products
  To ban all Bob Martin products including Spot On Flea & Worm Treatment known to be potentially lethal for cats and dogs. There are many proven cases of this both online and from Veterinary Practices. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 20 July 2014, Signatures: 1179