Change the law so that bereaved children get a benefit when a parent dies

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Popularity

This petition has 3,759 signatures in total, with signatories from 608 constituencies. That makes it the 3,540th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 49% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 47% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

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

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

Signatures by Region

• 810 - London
• 648 - South East
• 599 - North West
• 294 - East of England
• 272 - South West
• 225 - West Midlands
• 216 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 165 - East Midlands
• 161 - Scotland
• 147 - Wales
• 105 - North East
• 30 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 3,733 - United Kingdom
• 7 - United States
• 4 - Australia
• 2 - Germany
• 2 - Spain
• 2 - France
• 1 - Switzerland
• 1 - Belgium
• 1 - Singapore
• 1 - New Zealand
• 1 - Luxembourg
• 1 - Ireland
• 1 - Gibraltar
• 1 - Canada
• 1 - Channel Islands