Pay the childcare element of tax credits direct to the childcare provider

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Popularity

This petition has 3,385 signatures in total, with signatories from 604 constituencies. That makes it the 3,733rd most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 56% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 40% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

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

This petition was submitted under the Parliamentary boundaries prior to June 2024, so the names may not be current constituency names

Signatures by Region

• 481 - North West
• 422 - Scotland
• 410 - South East
• 361 - West Midlands
• 310 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 303 - East of England
• 285 - East Midlands
• 244 - London
• 239 - South West
• 131 - North East
• 87 - Wales
• 69 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 3,382 - United Kingdom
• 2 - United States
• 1 - South Africa