Investigate the implications of sanctioning citizens in receipt of benefits.

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Popularity

This petition has 2,368 signatures in total, with signatories from 608 constituencies. That makes it the 4,545th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 63% (average) and a Local Issue Rating of 32% (high).

Signatures by Constituency

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

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

Signatures by Region

• 378 - North West
• 279 - South East
• 231 - South West
• 227 - London
• 220 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 191 - West Midlands
• 183 - East Midlands
• 181 - East of England
• 176 - Wales
• 141 - Scotland
• 113 - North East
• 21 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 2,355 - United Kingdom
• 4 - France
• 2 - Bulgaria
• 1 - Netherlands
• 1 - Iceland
• 1 - Isle of Man
• 1 - Ireland
• 1 - Indonesia
• 1 - Spain
• 1 - Thailand