Amend Official Secrets Act to prohibit its use in cases involving child abuse

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Popularity

This petition has 1,159 signatures in total, with signatories from 497 constituencies. That makes it the 6,538th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 52% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 32% (high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 20 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 13 - Nottingham East
• 10 - Nottingham North
• 9 - Nottingham South
• 8 - Weaver Vale
• 7 - Wells
• 7 - Sheffield Central
• 7 - Buckingham
• 6 - Wakefield
• 6 - Esher and Walton
• 6 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 6 - Gedling
• 5 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 5 - Somerton and Frome
• 5 - Bassetlaw
• 5 - Leeds West
• 5 - Beaconsfield
• 5 - Solihull
• 5 - Cardiff North
• 5 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 5 - Twickenham
• 5 - Putney
• 5 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 5 - Derby North
• 5 - Salford and Eccles
• 5 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 5 - Arfon
• 5 - Warwick and Leamington
• 5 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 4 - West Ham
• 4 - North Tyneside
• 4 - City of Chester
• 4 - Tunbridge Wells
• 4 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 4 - Congleton
• 4 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 4 - Milton Keynes South
• 4 - Bridgend
• 4 - Manchester, Gorton
• 4 - Epping Forest
• 4 - Brent Central
• 4 - Lewisham East
• 4 - Broxtowe
• 4 - North Devon
• 4 - Ceredigion
• 4 - Dover
• 4 - Chesham and Amersham
• 4 - Newton Abbot
• 4 - Derbyshire Dales
• 4 - North East Derbyshire
• 4 - Torbay
• 4 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 4 - Easington
• 4 - Eastbourne
• 4 - Bury South
• 4 - Southport
• 4 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 4 - Denton and Reddish
• 4 - Totnes
• 4 - Wrexham
• 4 - South West Hertfordshire
• 4 - Blackley and Broughton
• 4 - Amber Valley
• 4 - Birmingham, Hodge Hill
• 4 - Hastings and Rye
• 4 - St Albans
• 4 - Wokingham
• 4 - Grantham and Stamford
• 4 - Isle of Wight
• 4 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 4 - Scunthorpe
• 4 - Stevenage
• 4 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 4 - Lewes
• 4 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 4 - Feltham and Heston
• 4 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 4 - Huntingdon
• 4 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 4 - Guildford
• 3 - St Helens North
• 3 - Doncaster North
• 3 - Truro and Falmouth
• 3 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 3 - Halton
• 3 - Stone
• 3 - South Dorset
• 3 - Mole Valley
• 3 - Stockport
• 3 - Hove
• 3 - St Ives
• 3 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 3 - Hartlepool
• 3 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 3 - Devizes
• 3 - Manchester, Withington
• 3 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 3 - Surrey Heath
• 3 - Glasgow North West
• 3 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 3 - Edinburgh South West
• 3 - Garston and Halewood
• 3 - South Swindon
• 3 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 3 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 3 - Telford
• 3 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 3 - Glasgow South West
• 3 - Loughborough
• 3 - Streatham
• 3 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 3 - Stroud
• 3 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 3 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 3 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 3 - Luton South
• 3 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 3 - Exeter
• 3 - Copeland
• 3 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 3 - Sevenoaks
• 3 - Oxford East
• 3 - Wigan
• 3 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 3 - Ogmore
• 3 - Reading East
• 3 - Norwich South
• 3 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 3 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 3 - Bristol West
• 3 - Broxbourne
• 3 - North Thanet
• 3 - North Shropshire
• 3 - Bury St Edmunds
• 3 - Poole
• 3 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 3 - Rugby
• 3 - Aldershot
• 3 - Rushcliffe
• 3 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 3 - Argyll and Bute
• 3 - Richmond Park
• 3 - Wolverhampton South West
• 3 - Barrow and Furness
• 3 - Belfast East
• 3 - Belfast South
• 3 - Beverley and Holderness
• 3 - Bexhill and Battle
• 3 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 3 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 3 - West Dorset
• 3 - Sherwood
• 3 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 3 - Colne Valley
• 3 - Watford
• 3 - Newbury
• 3 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 3 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 3 - Rochdale
• 3 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 3 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 3 - Calder Valley
• 3 - South Derbyshire
• 3 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 2 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 2 - Ribble Valley
• 2 - Middlesbrough
• 2 - Reigate
• 2 - Stockton North
• 2 - Reading West
• 2 - Mid Derbyshire
• 2 - Keighley
• 2 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 2 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 2 - Islington North
• 2 - Newark
• 2 - Na h-Eileanan an Iar
• 2 - Stirling
• 2 - Milton Keynes North
• 2 - South East Cornwall
• 2 - Ilford North
• 2 - Saffron Walden
• 2 - Southampton, Test
• 2 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 2 - Ipswich
• 2 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 2 - Morley and Outwood
• 2 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 2 - Mitcham and Morden
• 2 - Kensington
• 2 - Portsmouth South
• 2 - Norwich North
• 2 - North Wiltshire
• 2 - North West Leicestershire
• 2 - Manchester Central
• 2 - Lincoln
• 2 - North Warwickshire
• 2 - Liverpool, Walton
• 2 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 2 - North East Hertfordshire
• 2 - North Somerset
• 2 - South Northamptonshire
• 2 - Maidenhead
• 2 - South Norfolk
• 2 - North East Bedfordshire
• 2 - North Cornwall
• 2 - Oldham West and Royton
• 2 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 2 - Meon Valley
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 2 - Portsmouth North
• 2 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 2 - Lagan Valley
• 2 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 2 - Selby and Ainsty
• 2 - Southampton, Itchen
• 2 - Leicester East
• 2 - Mansfield
• 2 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 2 - Orpington
• 2 - Luton North
• 2 - East Dunbartonshire
• 2 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 2 - Blackburn
• 2 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 2 - Coventry North East
• 2 - Corby
• 2 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 2 - Blackpool South
• 2 - Blaydon
• 2 - Cleethorpes
• 2 - Clacton
• 2 - Upper Bann
• 2 - Tynemouth
• 2 - Darlington
• 2 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 2 - Ealing, Southall
• 2 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 2 - Dundee West
• 2 - Wirral South
• 2 - Torridge and West Devon
• 2 - Tottenham
• 2 - Don Valley
• 2 - Derby South
• 2 - Daventry
• 2 - Bolton North East
• 2 - Chorley
• 2 - Cannock Chase
• 2 - West Suffolk
• 2 - Camborne and Redruth
• 2 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 2 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 2 - Bury North
• 2 - Burton
• 2 - Burnley
• 2 - West Lancashire
• 2 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 2 - Canterbury
• 2 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 2 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 2 - Chipping Barnet
• 2 - Bootle
• 2 - Chichester
• 2 - Walthamstow
• 2 - Wantage
• 2 - Bournemouth East
• 2 - Central Devon
• 2 - Bracknell
• 2 - Carlisle
• 2 - Bradford East
• 2 - Knowsley
• 2 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 2 - Taunton Deane
• 2 - Hammersmith
• 2 - Arundel and South Downs
• 2 - Stretford and Urmston
• 2 - Colchester
• 2 - Ashfield
• 2 - Glasgow South
• 2 - Basildon and Billericay
• 2 - Glasgow North East
• 2 - Basingstoke
• 2 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 2 - Harborough
• 2 - Harlow
• 2 - Heywood and Middleton
• 2 - Hexham
• 2 - Hertsmere
• 2 - Hertford and Stortford
• 2 - Hendon
• 2 - Wyre and Preston North
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 2 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 2 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 2 - Glasgow North
• 2 - Woking
• 2 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 2 - The Cotswolds
• 2 - Enfield North
• 2 - Thirsk and Malton
• 2 - Witham
• 2 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 2 - Edinburgh West
• 2 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 2 - Edinburgh East
• 2 - East Yorkshire
• 2 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 2 - Thurrock
• 2 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 2 - Fylde
• 2 - Beckenham
• 2 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 2 - Foyle
• 2 - Tatton
• 1 - Wyre Forest
• 1 - West Worcestershire
• 1 - Witney
• 1 - Wirral West
• 1 - Wycombe
• 1 - Wolverhampton North East
• 1 - Worcester
• 1 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 1 - Worthing West
• 1 - Sefton Central
• 1 - Sedgefield
• 1 - West Tyrone
• 1 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 1 - South West Norfolk
• 1 - Swansea West
• 1 - Tamworth
• 1 - South Thanet
• 1 - Stockton South
• 1 - South Suffolk
• 1 - South Staffordshire
• 1 - Thornbury and Yate
• 1 - South West Wiltshire
• 1 - Swansea East
• 1 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 1 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 1 - Strangford
• 1 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 1 - Sutton and Cheam
• 1 - Sutton Coldfield
• 1 - Stafford
• 1 - Spelthorne
• 1 - South Leicestershire
• 1 - Torfaen
• 1 - Warrington South
• 1 - Wealden
• 1 - York Central
• 1 - Slough
• 1 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 1 - West Bromwich East
• 1 - Sheffield South East
• 1 - Weston-super-Mare
• 1 - Walsall South
• 1 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 1 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 1 - South Down
• 1 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 1 - Vale of Clwyd
• 1 - Sunderland Central
• 1 - Vauxhall
• 1 - South Cambridgeshire
• 1 - Walsall North
• 1 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 1 - Glenrothes
• 1 - Doncaster Central
• 1 - Delyn
• 1 - Cynon Valley
• 1 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 1 - Croydon North
• 1 - Coventry South
• 1 - Coventry North West
• 1 - Clwyd West
• 1 - Clwyd South
• 1 - City of Durham
• 1 - Chippenham
• 1 - Cheltenham
• 1 - Chelmsford
• 1 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 1 - Dudley South
• 1 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 1 - Glasgow East
• 1 - Glasgow Central
• 1 - Gainsborough
• 1 - Fareham
• 1 - Falkirk
• 1 - Enfield, Southgate
• 1 - Eltham
• 1 - East Surrey
• 1 - East Renfrewshire
• 1 - East Londonderry
• 1 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 1 - Ealing North
• 1 - Dundee East
• 1 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 1 - Charnwood
• 1 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 1 - Castle Point
• 1 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 1 - Bedford
• 1 - Battersea
• 1 - Barnsley East
• 1 - Barnsley Central
• 1 - Banff and Buchan
• 1 - Banbury
• 1 - Aylesbury
• 1 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 1 - Ashford
• 1 - Alyn and Deeside
• 1 - Aberdeen South
• 1 - Aberdeen North
• 1 - Aberconwy
• 1 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 1 - Bishop Auckland
• 1 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 1 - Cardiff West
• 1 - Cardiff Central
• 1 - Cambridge
• 1 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 1 - Caerphilly
• 1 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 1 - Bristol South
• 1 - Bristol North West
• 1 - Bristol East
• 1 - Braintree
• 1 - Bradford South
• 1 - Bolsover
• 1 - Blyth Valley
• 1 - Aberavon
• 1 - Gloucester
• 1 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 1 - North East Fife
• 1 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 1 - North Durham
• 1 - North Dorset
• 1 - Northampton South
• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 1 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 1 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 1 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 1 - Moray
• 1 - Mid Worcestershire
• 1 - Mid Ulster
• 1 - Midlothian
• 1 - Makerfield
• 1 - North East Hampshire
• 1 - North Herefordshire
• 1 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 1 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 1 - Rochford and Southend East
• 1 - Redditch
• 1 - Pontypridd
• 1 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 1 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 1 - Peterborough
• 1 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 1 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 1 - North West Hampshire
• 1 - North West Durham
• 1 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 1 - North Norfolk
• 1 - Macclesfield
• 1 - Louth and Horncastle
• 1 - Llanelli
• 1 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 1 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 1 - High Peak
• 1 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 1 - Hazel Grove
• 1 - Harwich and North Essex
• 1 - Harrow East
• 1 - Halifax
• 1 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 1 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 1 - Great Yarmouth
• 1 - Great Grimsby
• 1 - Gravesham
• 1 - Gower
• 1 - Huddersfield
• 1 - Hyndburn
• 1 - Livingston
• 1 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 1 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 1 - Leicester West
• 1 - Leeds North West
• 1 - Leeds North East
• 1 - Brent North
• 1 - Kingswood
• 1 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 1 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 1 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 1 - Jarrow
• 1 - Islwyn
• 1 - Inverclyde
• 1 - Gosport

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

Signatures by Region

• 160 - South East
• 146 - North West
• 128 - London
• 118 - East Midlands
• 99 - Scotland
• 97 - South West
• 92 - East of England
• 90 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 81 - West Midlands
• 57 - Wales
• 44 - North East
• 17 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 1,142 - United Kingdom
• 4 - Ireland
• 3 - Spain
• 2 - United States
• 2 - France
• 1 - Germany
• 1 - Cyprus
• 1 - Italy
• 1 - Netherlands
• 1 - Slovenia
• 1 - Canada