The law on WPA (widowed parents allowance) needs to be updated.

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Popularity

This petition has 1,089 signatures in total, with signatories from 421 constituencies. That makes it the 6,720th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 36% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 44% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 36 - Chesterfield
• 28 - Bristol West
• 21 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 21 - Castle Point
• 19 - West Suffolk
• 16 - York Central
• 14 - Worthing West
• 14 - Bristol East
• 14 - York Outer
• 13 - Stretford and Urmston
• 13 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 11 - Gainsborough
• 10 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 9 - Wakefield
• 9 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 7 - North West Hampshire
• 7 - Thirsk and Malton
• 7 - Stone
• 7 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 7 - Bristol South
• 6 - Macclesfield
• 6 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 6 - High Peak
• 6 - North Tyneside
• 6 - Warrington South
• 6 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 5 - Bolsover
• 5 - Hertsmere
• 5 - Stockport
• 5 - Taunton Deane
• 5 - Milton Keynes North
• 5 - Fareham
• 5 - Moray
• 5 - Bristol North West
• 5 - Wantage
• 5 - Sheffield Central
• 5 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 5 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 5 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 5 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 5 - Christchurch
• 5 - Gloucester
• 5 - Watford
• 4 - Saffron Walden
• 4 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 4 - Rugby
• 4 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 4 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 4 - North East Derbyshire
• 4 - Edinburgh East
• 4 - North East Somerset
• 4 - Southend West
• 4 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 4 - Morley and Outwood
• 4 - Wansbeck
• 4 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 4 - Blackpool South
• 4 - Beckenham
• 4 - Winchester
• 4 - Braintree
• 4 - Hertford and Stortford
• 4 - Arundel and South Downs
• 4 - Hemsworth
• 4 - Henley
• 4 - Fermanagh and South Tyrone
• 3 - Doncaster North
• 3 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 3 - Halton
• 3 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 3 - Lagan Valley
• 3 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 3 - Havant
• 3 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 3 - Pudsey
• 3 - Horsham
• 3 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 3 - North Wiltshire
• 3 - Newark
• 3 - Manchester, Withington
• 3 - Newbury
• 3 - Epping Forest
• 3 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 3 - Edinburgh South West
• 3 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 3 - Meon Valley
• 3 - Maldon
• 3 - East Londonderry
• 3 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 3 - Lincoln
• 3 - North West Durham
• 3 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 3 - Putney
• 3 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 3 - Somerton and Frome
• 3 - Basildon and Billericay
• 3 - Southampton, Itchen
• 3 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 3 - Wellingborough
• 3 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 3 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 3 - Burton
• 3 - Canterbury
• 3 - Warrington North
• 3 - Sutton and Cheam
• 3 - Southport
• 3 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 3 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 3 - Tooting
• 3 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 3 - Sefton Central
• 3 - Vale of Clwyd
• 3 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 3 - South Cambridgeshire
• 3 - Wyre and Preston North
• 3 - Worcester
• 3 - Bolton North East
• 3 - West Tyrone
• 3 - Blyth Valley
• 3 - City of Chester
• 3 - Bromsgrove
• 3 - Chipping Barnet
• 3 - Stroud
• 2 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 2 - Tatton
• 2 - Livingston
• 2 - Makerfield
• 2 - Maidenhead
• 2 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 2 - Walthamstow
• 2 - Heywood and Middleton
• 2 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 2 - Hove
• 2 - Islwyn
• 2 - Keighley
• 2 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 2 - Weston-super-Mare
• 2 - West Dunbartonshire
• 2 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 2 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 2 - Wealden
• 2 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 2 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 2 - Ynys Môn
• 2 - Mid Sussex
• 2 - Surrey Heath
• 2 - South Antrim
• 2 - North West Norfolk
• 2 - Nottingham North
• 2 - Salford and Eccles
• 2 - Rutland and Melton
• 2 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 2 - Rushcliffe
• 2 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 2 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 2 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 2 - Peterborough
• 2 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 2 - Reading East
• 2 - Rochdale
• 2 - Rochester and Strood
• 2 - North Somerset
• 2 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 2 - North East Fife
• 2 - Mole Valley
• 2 - Monmouth
• 2 - Strangford
• 2 - Stourbridge
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 2 - South Shields
• 2 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 2 - Spelthorne
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 2 - South West Norfolk
• 2 - South Thanet
• 2 - Northampton South
• 2 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 2 - North Durham
• 2 - South Leicestershire
• 2 - Romford
• 2 - Hexham
• 2 - Blaydon
• 2 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 2 - Eddisbury
• 2 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 2 - Dewsbury
• 2 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 2 - Bootle
• 2 - East Hampshire
• 2 - Bassetlaw
• 2 - Basingstoke
• 2 - Central Ayrshire
• 2 - Gravesham
• 2 - Bolton South East
• 2 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 2 - Eastleigh
• 2 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 2 - Eastbourne
• 2 - East Lothian
• 2 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 2 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 2 - Broxbourne
• 2 - Cambridge
• 2 - Dundee East
• 2 - Garston and Halewood
• 2 - Delyn
• 2 - Buckingham
• 2 - Barking
• 2 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 2 - Ashford
• 2 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 2 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 2 - Colchester
• 2 - Sevenoaks
• 2 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 2 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 2 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 2 - Banbury
• 2 - Harlow
• 2 - Barrow and Furness
• 2 - Bury South
• 2 - Dartford
• 1 - St Albans
• 1 - South West Hertfordshire
• 1 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 1 - Stafford
• 1 - Bury St Edmunds
• 1 - South West Bedfordshire
• 1 - Stirling
• 1 - Broxtowe
• 1 - Bury North
• 1 - St Helens North
• 1 - South Suffolk
• 1 - Slough
• 1 - Skipton and Ripon
• 1 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 1 - Sherwood
• 1 - Charnwood
• 1 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 1 - Cheadle
• 1 - Chesham and Amersham
• 1 - Chichester
• 1 - Chorley
• 1 - Solihull
• 1 - Central Devon
• 1 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 1 - South Staffordshire
• 1 - Camborne and Redruth
• 1 - South Northamptonshire
• 1 - Cardiff Central
• 1 - Cardiff North
• 1 - South Down
• 1 - Carlisle
• 1 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 1 - Chippenham
• 1 - St Ives
• 1 - Telford
• 1 - Barnsley Central
• 1 - West Ham
• 1 - West Dorset
• 1 - West Bromwich East
• 1 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 1 - Waveney
• 1 - Bath
• 1 - Warwick and Leamington
• 1 - Batley and Spen
• 1 - Battersea
• 1 - Warley
• 1 - Bedford
• 1 - West Worcestershire
• 1 - Wigan
• 1 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 1 - Alyn and Deeside
• 1 - Yeovil
• 1 - Angus
• 1 - Argyll and Bute
• 1 - Ashfield
• 1 - Wokingham
• 1 - Woking
• 1 - Wirral West
• 1 - Wirral South
• 1 - Windsor
• 1 - Wimbledon
• 1 - Belfast East
• 1 - Belfast North
• 1 - Aberconwy
• 1 - Bolton West
• 1 - Swansea East
• 1 - Sutton Coldfield
• 1 - Boston and Skegness
• 1 - Bournemouth East
• 1 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 1 - Torridge and West Devon
• 1 - Streatham
• 1 - Bridgend
• 1 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 1 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 1 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 1 - Thurrock
• 1 - Walsall South
• 1 - Wallasey
• 1 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 1 - Vauxhall
• 1 - Beverley and Holderness
• 1 - Bexhill and Battle
• 1 - Tynemouth
• 1 - Tunbridge Wells
• 1 - Truro and Falmouth
• 1 - Tottenham
• 1 - Blackley and Broughton
• 1 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 1 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 1 - City of Durham
• 1 - Gedling
• 1 - Luton North
• 1 - Louth and Horncastle
• 1 - Gordon
• 1 - Gower
• 1 - Grantham and Stamford
• 1 - Great Grimsby
• 1 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 1 - Lichfield
• 1 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 1 - Hammersmith
• 1 - Lewes
• 1 - Glasgow South West
• 1 - Glasgow South
• 1 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 1 - Midlothian
• 1 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 1 - Glasgow Central
• 1 - Middlesbrough
• 1 - Mid Derbyshire
• 1 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 1 - Glasgow East
• 1 - Glasgow North
• 1 - Manchester, Gorton
• 1 - Glasgow North East
• 1 - Glasgow North West
• 1 - Leicester West
• 1 - Leicester South
• 1 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 1 - Inverclyde
• 1 - Ilford North
• 1 - Hyndburn
• 1 - Huntingdon
• 1 - Hayes and Harlington
• 1 - Hazel Grove
• 1 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 1 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 1 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 1 - Hemel Hempstead
• 1 - Hastings and Rye
• 1 - Jarrow
• 1 - Harwich and North Essex
• 1 - Leeds Central
• 1 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 1 - Harborough
• 1 - Knowsley
• 1 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 1 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 1 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 1 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 1 - Kettering
• 1 - Kensington
• 1 - Harrow West
• 1 - Hendon
• 1 - Mid Ulster
• 1 - Cleethorpes
• 1 - Portsmouth North
• 1 - Denton and Reddish
• 1 - Derbyshire Dales
• 1 - Derby South
• 1 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 1 - Don Valley
• 1 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 1 - Nottingham South
• 1 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 1 - Nottingham East
• 1 - Norwich South
• 1 - Portsmouth South
• 1 - Daventry
• 1 - Croydon South
• 1 - Clwyd West
• 1 - Rother Valley
• 1 - Rotherham
• 1 - Colne Valley
• 1 - Copeland
• 1 - Crawley
• 1 - Rochford and Southend East
• 1 - Croydon Central
• 1 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 1 - Richmond Park
• 1 - Redcar
• 1 - East Antrim
• 1 - North Thanet
• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 1 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 1 - Esher and Walton
• 1 - Neath
• 1 - Exeter
• 1 - Falkirk
• 1 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 1 - Montgomeryshire
• 1 - Fylde
• 1 - Milton Keynes South
• 1 - Gateshead
• 1 - Epsom and Ewell
• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 1 - Northampton North
• 1 - North Swindon
• 1 - North Shropshire
• 1 - East Yorkshire
• 1 - North East Bedfordshire
• 1 - Edinburgh South
• 1 - North Down
• 1 - North Dorset
• 1 - North Cornwall
• 1 - Edinburgh West
• 1 - North Antrim
• 1 - Edmonton
• 1 - Mid Worcestershire

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

Signatures by Region

• 159 - South East
• 138 - North West
• 120 - East of England
• 109 - East Midlands
• 105 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 103 - South West
• 95 - Scotland
• 76 - London
• 66 - West Midlands
• 40 - North East
• 26 - Wales
• 24 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 1,069 - United Kingdom
• 5 - Australia
• 3 - Switzerland
• 3 - France
• 2 - Spain
• 1 - Romania
• 1 - Lithuania
• 1 - Jersey
• 1 - Isle of Man
• 1 - Honduras
• 1 - Chile
• 1 - United States