Amend Merchant Shipping act to ensure foreign seamen sit full oral exams at MCA.

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Popularity

This petition has 1,062 signatures in total, with signatories from 328 constituencies. That makes it the 6,804th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 26% (very low) and a Local Issue Rating of 48% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 36 - Orkney and Shetland
• 28 - Na h-Eileanan an Iar
• 20 - Argyll and Bute
• 19 - Banff and Buchan
• 18 - Glasgow Central
• 18 - Inverclyde
• 17 - Moray
• 16 - South Shields
• 15 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 13 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 12 - Jarrow
• 12 - Ynys Môn
• 11 - South Dorset
• 10 - West Dunbartonshire
• 10 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 10 - South West Devon
• 10 - East Dunbartonshire
• 9 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 9 - Gordon
• 9 - North Tyneside
• 8 - Glasgow North West
• 8 - Isle of Wight
• 8 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 8 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 8 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 7 - Fareham
• 7 - Torridge and West Devon
• 7 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 7 - Barrow and Furness
• 7 - Livingston
• 6 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 6 - Dover
• 6 - Sunderland Central
• 6 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 6 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 6 - Sefton Central
• 6 - Tynemouth
• 6 - Montgomeryshire
• 6 - Beverley and Holderness
• 6 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 6 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 6 - Gosport
• 6 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 6 - Wallasey
• 5 - Aberdeen North
• 5 - Meon Valley
• 5 - Redcar
• 5 - Worthing West
• 5 - Angus
• 5 - Wyre and Preston North
• 5 - Cleethorpes
• 5 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 5 - Aberdeen South
• 5 - East Renfrewshire
• 5 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 5 - Eastleigh
• 5 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 5 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 5 - Edinburgh West
• 4 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 4 - East Lothian
• 4 - Southampton, Test
• 4 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 4 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 4 - Gainsborough
• 4 - East Yorkshire
• 4 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 4 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 4 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 4 - Edinburgh East
• 4 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 4 - Clwyd West
• 4 - Bristol North West
• 4 - Glasgow South
• 4 - Swansea East
• 4 - Central Ayrshire
• 4 - Bolton West
• 4 - Stirling
• 4 - South Thanet
• 4 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 4 - Waveney
• 4 - Chippenham
• 4 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 4 - Arundel and South Downs
• 4 - South Ribble
• 4 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 3 - North Norfolk
• 3 - Bradford East
• 3 - North Shropshire
• 3 - Truro and Falmouth
• 3 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 3 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 3 - Norwich South
• 3 - North East Somerset
• 3 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 3 - Horsham
• 3 - Blackpool South
• 3 - Gower
• 3 - Aylesbury
• 3 - Bootle
• 3 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 3 - New Forest West
• 3 - Boston and Skegness
• 3 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 3 - Portsmouth South
• 3 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 3 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 3 - Somerton and Frome
• 3 - Carlisle
• 3 - St Austell and Newquay
• 3 - South Northamptonshire
• 3 - Chichester
• 3 - South Down
• 3 - Suffolk Coastal
• 3 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 3 - Camborne and Redruth
• 3 - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
• 3 - Edinburgh South West
• 2 - Don Valley
• 2 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 2 - West Dorset
• 2 - Liverpool, Walton
• 2 - Wirral South
• 2 - Mansfield
• 2 - Wirral West
• 2 - Lichfield
• 2 - Midlothian
• 2 - Wyre Forest
• 2 - Southend West
• 2 - South East Cornwall
• 2 - South Norfolk
• 2 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 2 - Workington
• 2 - Wolverhampton North East
• 2 - Mid Norfolk
• 2 - Shipley
• 2 - Weaver Vale
• 2 - Taunton Deane
• 2 - Strangford
• 2 - St Helens North
• 2 - North Thanet
• 2 - Totnes
• 2 - Norwich North
• 2 - Tatton
• 2 - Torbay
• 2 - Stockton South
• 2 - North Cornwall
• 2 - Rutland and Melton
• 2 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 2 - South Staffordshire
• 2 - The Cotswolds
• 2 - Newark
• 2 - Warwick and Leamington
• 2 - Wansbeck
• 2 - Newbury
• 2 - St Ives
• 2 - Southampton, Itchen
• 2 - Colne Valley
• 2 - Gateshead
• 2 - Glasgow North
• 2 - Blyth Valley
• 2 - Glasgow North East
• 2 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 2 - Erewash
• 2 - Glasgow South West
• 2 - Birkenhead
• 2 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 2 - Great Grimsby
• 2 - Garston and Halewood
• 2 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 2 - Bristol West
• 2 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 2 - Delyn
• 2 - Dundee East
• 2 - Dundee West
• 2 - East Antrim
• 2 - Bury St Edmunds
• 2 - Eddisbury
• 2 - Doncaster Central
• 2 - Eltham
• 2 - Bath
• 2 - Halifax
• 2 - Hexham
• 2 - Christchurch
• 2 - Ipswich
• 2 - Basingstoke
• 2 - Hemsworth
• 2 - Harwich and North Essex
• 2 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 2 - Hartlepool
• 2 - Heywood and Middleton
• 1 - Streatham
• 1 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 1 - Cardiff Central
• 1 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 1 - Stroud
• 1 - Calder Valley
• 1 - Surrey Heath
• 1 - Sutton and Cheam
• 1 - Sutton Coldfield
• 1 - Banbury
• 1 - Swansea West
• 1 - Ashford
• 1 - Alyn and Deeside
• 1 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 1 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 1 - South Suffolk
• 1 - Chesterfield
• 1 - Cheltenham
• 1 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 1 - South West Surrey
• 1 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 1 - Ceredigion
• 1 - Central Devon
• 1 - Woking
• 1 - Stockport
• 1 - Stockton North
• 1 - Cardiff West
• 1 - Stourbridge
• 1 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 1 - Bury North
• 1 - Buckingham
• 1 - Bournemouth East
• 1 - Bassetlaw
• 1 - Blaenau Gwent
• 1 - Windsor
• 1 - Winchester
• 1 - West Worcestershire
• 1 - Wealden
• 1 - West Tyrone
• 1 - West Suffolk
• 1 - Batley and Spen
• 1 - Thornbury and Yate
• 1 - The Wrekin
• 1 - West Ham
• 1 - West Lancashire
• 1 - Wakefield
• 1 - Vauxhall
• 1 - Bracknell
• 1 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 1 - Telford
• 1 - Tewkesbury
• 1 - Broxtowe
• 1 - Barnsley East
• 1 - Broadland
• 1 - Wokingham
• 1 - Bridgend
• 1 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 1 - Tunbridge Wells
• 1 - Bradford South
• 1 - Witney
• 1 - Witham
• 1 - Vale of Clwyd
• 1 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 1 - City of Durham
• 1 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 1 - Mole Valley
• 1 - Harrow West
• 1 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 1 - Guildford
• 1 - Grantham and Stamford
• 1 - Glenrothes
• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 1 - New Forest East
• 1 - Newport West
• 1 - North Antrim
• 1 - Glasgow East
• 1 - North Down
• 1 - North Durham
• 1 - North East Bedfordshire
• 1 - North East Fife
• 1 - Milton Keynes North
• 1 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 1 - Keighley
• 1 - Leeds Central
• 1 - Leeds North West
• 1 - Leeds West
• 1 - High Peak
• 1 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 1 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 1 - Loughborough
• 1 - Louth and Horncastle
• 1 - Makerfield
• 1 - Maldon
• 1 - Henley
• 1 - Meriden
• 1 - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
• 1 - Mid Derbyshire
• 1 - Middlesbrough
• 1 - Fylde
• 1 - North Somerset
• 1 - North Swindon
• 1 - Rochester and Strood
• 1 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 1 - Aberconwy
• 1 - Salford and Eccles
• 1 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 1 - Doncaster North
• 1 - Sevenoaks
• 1 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 1 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 1 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 1 - Devizes
• 1 - Darlington
• 1 - Croydon South
• 1 - Congleton
• 1 - Clwyd South
• 1 - Clacton
• 1 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 1 - Ribble Valley
• 1 - Foyle
• 1 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 1 - North West Hampshire
• 1 - North West Norfolk
• 1 - North Wiltshire
• 1 - Falkirk
• 1 - Esher and Walton
• 1 - Nottingham East
• 1 - Enfield North
• 1 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 1 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 1 - Poole
• 1 - Portsmouth North
• 1 - East Londonderry
• 1 - East Hampshire
• 1 - Pudsey
• 1 - Southport

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

Signatures by Region

• 400 - Scotland
• 111 - South East
• 96 - South West
• 94 - North West
• 84 - North East
• 67 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 61 - Wales
• 35 - East of England
• 27 - East Midlands
• 26 - West Midlands
• 12 - Northern Ireland
• 10 - London

Signatures by Country

• 1,041 - United Kingdom
• 5 - Australia
• 2 - United States
• 2 - France
• 1 - Germany
• 1 - Ukraine
• 1 - Turkey
• 1 - Thailand
• 1 - New Zealand
• 1 - Norway
• 1 - South Korea
• 1 - Canada
• 1 - Switzerland
• 1 - Cyprus
• 1 - Spain
• 1 - Ireland