Abolish the Vagrancy Act 1824 which makes it a crime to be homeless

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Popularity

This petition has 3,783 signatures in total, with signatories from 633 constituencies. That makes it the 3,529th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 63% (average) and a Local Issue Rating of 36% (high).

Signatures by Constituency

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

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

Signatures by Region

• 553 - North West
• 492 - South East
• 484 - London
• 426 - South West
• 320 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 297 - Scotland
• 288 - East of England
• 253 - West Midlands
• 241 - Wales
• 214 - East Midlands
• 123 - North East
• 17 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 3,757 - United Kingdom
• 4 - France
• 4 - Australia
• 3 - United States
• 3 - Spain
• 3 - Canada
• 1 - Taiwan
• 1 - Nepal
• 1 - Netherlands
• 1 - Malta
• 1 - Isle of Man
• 1 - Ireland
• 1 - Greece
• 1 - Cyprus
• 1 - Austria