Ensure the Education Secretary is a qualified teacher with many years experience

Signatures by Constituency

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

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

Signatures by Region

8,213 - South East
5,966 - North West
4,827 - East of England
4,533 - South West
4,427 - London
4,226 - Yorkshire and The Humber
3,951 - West Midlands
3,688 - East Midlands
1,979 - North East
1,049 - Wales
518 - Scotland
168 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

44,359 - United Kingdom
42 - France
30 - Spain
25 - Australia
21 - United Arab Emirates
20 - Germany
17 - United States
12 - Netherlands
10 - New Zealand
9 - Thailand
8 - Ireland
8 - Hong Kong
8 - Canada
5 - Isle of Man
5 - Italy
4 - Qatar
4 - Sweden
4 - Luxembourg
4 - Japan
4 - Austria
3 - Singapore
3 - Belgium
3 - Greece
3 - Switzerland
3 - Portugal
3 - Denmark
3 - Egypt
3 - Malaysia
2 - Kuwait
2 - Norway
2 - Philippines
2 - Cambodia
2 - Kenya
2 - Vietnam
2 - China
2 - Malta
2 - Gibraltar
1 - Turkey
1 - Uruguay
1 - Taiwan
1 - Kosovo
1 - Pakistan
1 - Turks and Caicos Islands
1 - Slovenia
1 - South Africa
1 - Oman
1 - Brazil
1 - Chile
1 - Cyprus
1 - Czechia
1 - Finland
1 - Falkland Islands
1 - The Gambia
1 - Hungary
1 - Indonesia
1 - Jersey
1 - Jamaica
1 - South Korea
1 - Monaco
1 - Montenegro
1 - Bermuda

Notes on geography

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