Scrap plans to close the BIS Department's Sheffield office - costing 247 jobs

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Popularity

This petition has 5,634 signatures in total, with signatories from 571 constituencies. That makes it the 2,854th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 25% (very low) and a Local Issue Rating of 72% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 781 - Sheffield Central
• 661 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 457 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 253 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 213 - Sheffield South East
• 142 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 136 - North East Derbyshire
• 102 - Rother Valley
• 90 - Chesterfield
• 57 - Doncaster North
• 45 - Derbyshire Dales
• 37 - Barnsley Central
• 37 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 34 - Rotherham
• 33 - Don Valley
• 27 - Bolsover
• 27 - Barnsley East
• 23 - Doncaster Central
• 23 - Leeds North East
• 21 - Bristol West
• 21 - High Peak
• 20 - Halton
• 18 - Darlington
• 18 - York Central
• 18 - Bassetlaw
• 17 - Weaver Vale
• 16 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 16 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 16 - Hemsworth
• 16 - York Outer
• 15 - Manchester, Withington
• 15 - Leeds Central
• 14 - Manchester Central
• 14 - Broxtowe
• 14 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 14 - Colne Valley
• 13 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 13 - Shipley
• 13 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 12 - Calder Valley
• 12 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 12 - Battersea
• 12 - Streatham
• 11 - Bristol East
• 11 - Selby and Ainsty
• 11 - Cardiff Central
• 11 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 11 - Gloucester
• 11 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 11 - Stockton South
• 11 - Dewsbury
• 10 - Wakefield
• 10 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 10 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 10 - Lincoln
• 10 - Vauxhall
• 10 - Skipton and Ripon
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• 10 - Hammersmith
• 9 - Thirsk and Malton
• 9 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 9 - Sherwood
• 9 - Gedling
• 9 - Chipping Barnet
• 9 - Southport
• 9 - Huddersfield
• 8 - Witney
• 8 - Batley and Spen
• 8 - Tooting
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• 8 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
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• 8 - Rushcliffe
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• 8 - Edinburgh East
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• 8 - Kingston upon Hull North
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• 8 - Leeds North West
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• 8 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 8 - South Swindon
• 8 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 8 - Bristol North West
• 8 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 8 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 8 - Bristol South
• 7 - St Albans
• 7 - Croydon Central
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• 7 - Coventry North East
• 7 - Stretford and Urmston
• 7 - Wirral West
• 7 - City of Durham
• 7 - Loughborough
• 7 - Manchester, Gorton
• 7 - Glasgow South
• 7 - Wyre and Preston North
• 7 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 7 - Basingstoke
• 7 - Coventry South
• 7 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 7 - Beverley and Holderness
• 7 - Leeds West
• 7 - Amber Valley
• 7 - Enfield North
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• 7 - Sutton and Cheam
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• 6 - Denton and Reddish
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• 6 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
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• 6 - Stroud
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• 6 - Copeland
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• 6 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 6 - South West Norfolk
• 6 - Keighley
• 6 - Croydon North
• 6 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 6 - Croydon South
• 6 - Warwick and Leamington
• 6 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 6 - Watford
• 6 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 6 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 5 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 5 - Warrington South
• 5 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 5 - North West Leicestershire
• 5 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 5 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 5 - Wells
• 5 - Meriden
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• 5 - Tottenham
• 5 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
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• 5 - Finchley and Golders Green
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• 5 - Sefton Central
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• 5 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
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• 5 - Bethnal Green and Bow
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• 5 - Arundel and South Downs
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• 5 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 5 - East Ham
• 5 - Beckenham
• 4 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 4 - Bradford East
• 4 - Southampton, Itchen
• 4 - Bradford West
• 4 - South Cambridgeshire
• 4 - Brent Central
• 4 - Hove
• 4 - Swansea West
• 4 - Telford
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• 4 - Newton Abbot
• 4 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 4 - New Forest West
• 4 - Maidenhead
• 4 - Cannock Chase
• 4 - St Helens North
• 4 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 4 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 4 - Ilford North
• 4 - Vale of Clwyd
• 4 - Stafford
• 4 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 4 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 4 - Banbury
• 4 - Leicester South
• 4 - Wantage
• 4 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 4 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 4 - Bedford
• 4 - Stone
• 4 - Knowsley
• 4 - Ipswich
• 4 - Bournemouth East
• 4 - Worthing West
• 4 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 4 - Jarrow
• 4 - Harborough
• 4 - South Ribble
• 4 - Alyn and Deeside
• 4 - Blackley and Broughton
• 4 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 4 - Harrow West
• 4 - Eddisbury
• 4 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 4 - Forest of Dean
• 4 - Fylde
• 4 - Gainsborough
• 4 - Garston and Halewood
• 4 - Portsmouth South
• 4 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 4 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 4 - Glasgow North
• 4 - Richmond Park
• 4 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 4 - Ealing, Southall
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• 4 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 4 - Woking
• 4 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 4 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 4 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 4 - Chelmsford
• 3 - Oxford East
• 3 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 3 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 3 - Rutland and Melton
• 3 - St Ives
• 3 - Maldon
• 3 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 3 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 3 - Saffron Walden
• 3 - Rochester and Strood
• 3 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 3 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 3 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 3 - Stevenage
• 3 - Sunderland Central
• 3 - The Wrekin
• 3 - Mid Worcestershire
• 3 - Milton Keynes South
• 3 - Reigate
• 3 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 3 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 3 - South Dorset
• 3 - Mole Valley
• 3 - South Leicestershire
• 3 - North East Hampshire
• 3 - Solihull
• 3 - Southampton, Test
• 3 - North Durham
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• 3 - Rochford and Southend East
• 3 - North East Fife
• 3 - South Staffordshire
• 3 - South Shields
• 3 - Moray
• 3 - West Dunbartonshire
• 3 - Glasgow North West
• 3 - Burton
• 3 - East Dunbartonshire
• 3 - Bolton North East
• 3 - Bury North
• 3 - Gosport
• 3 - Blyth Valley
• 3 - Caerphilly
• 3 - Cardiff West
• 3 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 3 - Halifax
• 3 - Carlisle
• 3 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 3 - Westminster North
• 3 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 3 - Bolton West
• 3 - East Yorkshire
• 3 - Eltham
• 3 - Enfield, Southgate
• 3 - Epping Forest
• 3 - Blackburn
• 3 - Erewash
• 3 - Broadland
• 3 - Falkirk
• 3 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 3 - Bromsgrove
• 3 - East Renfrewshire
• 3 - Broxbourne
• 3 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 3 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 3 - Harrow East
• 3 - Gravesham
• 3 - Huntingdon
• 3 - Bexhill and Battle
• 3 - Derby South
• 3 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 3 - Islwyn
• 3 - Isle of Wight
• 3 - Wimbledon
• 3 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 3 - Chorley
• 3 - Kensington
• 3 - Glasgow South West
• 3 - Chichester
• 3 - Wealden
• 3 - Leigh
• 3 - Clwyd South
• 3 - Hemel Hempstead
• 3 - Brigg and Goole
• 3 - Congleton
• 3 - Hendon
• 3 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 3 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 3 - City of Chester
• 3 - Lewisham East
• 3 - Bath
• 2 - Cleethorpes
• 2 - The Cotswolds
• 2 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 2 - Central Ayrshire
• 2 - Wokingham
• 2 - Taunton Deane
• 2 - Charnwood
• 2 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 2 - Castle Point
• 2 - Bury St Edmunds
• 2 - Buckingham
• 2 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 2 - Edmonton
• 2 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 2 - Spelthorne
• 2 - Birmingham, Perry Barr
• 2 - Surrey Heath
• 2 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 2 - St Austell and Newquay
• 2 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 2 - Belfast South
• 2 - Basildon and Billericay
• 2 - Barrow and Furness
• 2 - Ynys Môn
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 2 - Ashford
• 2 - Ashfield
• 2 - South West Wiltshire
• 2 - Aberdeen North
• 2 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 2 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 2 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 2 - Bournemouth West
• 2 - South East Cornwall
• 2 - Wyre Forest
• 2 - Wycombe
• 2 - South Northamptonshire
• 2 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 2 - Blaenau Gwent
• 2 - Blackpool South
• 2 - South Thanet
• 2 - South West Bedfordshire
• 2 - South West Devon
• 2 - Arfon
• 2 - Luton South
• 2 - Northampton North
• 2 - Harlow
• 2 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 2 - Tunbridge Wells
• 2 - Great Yarmouth
• 2 - North East Bedfordshire
• 2 - Great Grimsby
• 2 - Makerfield
• 2 - Wellingborough
• 2 - North East Hertfordshire
• 2 - Gordon
• 2 - North Herefordshire
• 2 - North Somerset
• 2 - North West Durham
• 2 - Totnes
• 2 - Harwich and North Essex
• 2 - Newport West
• 2 - Luton North
• 2 - Livingston
• 2 - Walsall South
• 2 - Wansbeck
• 2 - Kingswood
• 2 - Middlesbrough
• 2 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 2 - Midlothian
• 2 - Kettering
• 2 - Milton Keynes North
• 2 - Inverclyde
• 2 - Heywood and Middleton
• 2 - Hertsmere
• 2 - Henley
• 2 - Hastings and Rye
• 2 - North Wiltshire
• 2 - Torridge and West Devon
• 2 - Preston
• 2 - East Devon
• 2 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 2 - Portsmouth North
• 2 - Weston-super-Mare
• 2 - Cynon Valley
• 2 - Daventry
• 2 - Derby North
• 2 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 2 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 2 - Dover
• 2 - Reading East
• 2 - Peterborough
• 2 - Penrith and The Border
• 2 - East Hampshire
• 2 - Fareham
• 2 - Witham
• 2 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 2 - Coventry North West
• 2 - West Worcestershire
• 2 - Torfaen
• 2 - Winchester
• 2 - Edinburgh West
• 2 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 2 - East Surrey
• 2 - Eastleigh
• 1 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 1 - Aberconwy
• 1 - Waveney
• 1 - Workington
• 1 - Sutton Coldfield
• 1 - Tamworth
• 1 - West Bromwich West
• 1 - Torbay
• 1 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 1 - Wolverhampton South West
• 1 - West Tyrone
• 1 - Wolverhampton North East
• 1 - Tatton
• 1 - Suffolk Coastal
• 1 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 1 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 1 - East Lothian
• 1 - Ealing North
• 1 - Dundee West
• 1 - Dundee East
• 1 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 1 - Dudley South
• 1 - Delyn
• 1 - Edinburgh South West
• 1 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 1 - Horsham
• 1 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 1 - Gower
• 1 - Glenrothes
• 1 - Glasgow North East
• 1 - Glasgow East
• 1 - Foyle
• 1 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 1 - Dartford
• 1 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 1 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 1 - Boston and Skegness
• 1 - Bolton South East
• 1 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 1 - Belfast North
• 1 - Beaconsfield
• 1 - Barking
• 1 - Argyll and Bute
• 1 - Bridgend
• 1 - Burnley
• 1 - Crawley
• 1 - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
• 1 - Clwyd West
• 1 - Christchurch
• 1 - Chesham and Amersham
• 1 - Ceredigion
• 1 - Central Devon
• 1 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 1 - Hyndburn
• 1 - Ilford South
• 1 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 1 - Rochdale
• 1 - Ribble Valley
• 1 - Redditch
• 1 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 1 - Putney
• 1 - Ogmore
• 1 - Nuneaton
• 1 - Nottingham North
• 1 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 1 - Rugby
• 1 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 1 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 1 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 1 - South Derbyshire
• 1 - Somerton and Frome
• 1 - Slough
• 1 - Sevenoaks
• 1 - Salisbury
• 1 - Norwich North
• 1 - North West Norfolk
• 1 - Louth and Horncastle
• 1 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 1 - Liverpool, Walton
• 1 - Lichfield
• 1 - Lewes
• 1 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 1 - Lagan Valley
• 1 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 1 - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
• 1 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 1 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 1 - North Dorset
• 1 - North Cornwall
• 1 - Northampton South
• 1 - New Forest East
• 1 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 1 - Montgomeryshire
• 1 - Mid Sussex
• 1 - Stalybridge and Hyde

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

Signatures by Region

• 3,183 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 493 - East Midlands
• 393 - London
• 382 - North West
• 239 - South East
• 196 - South West
• 158 - North East
• 144 - East of England
• 139 - West Midlands
• 122 - Scotland
• 80 - Wales
• 6 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 5,602 - United Kingdom
• 6 - Australia
• 3 - Cyprus
• 3 - Germany
• 2 - United Arab Emirates
• 2 - New Zealand
• 2 - Italy
• 2 - Spain
• 1 - France
• 1 - Channel Islands
• 1 - United States
• 1 - Sweden
• 1 - Portugal
• 1 - Belgium
• 1 - Netherlands
• 1 - Morocco
• 1 - Kuwait
• 1 - Ireland
• 1 - Greece
• 1 - South Africa