Change the law to include both parents’ names in children’s passports.

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Popularity

This petition has 5,272 signatures in total, with signatories from 584 constituencies. That makes it the 2,926th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 34% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 62% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

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

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

Signatures by Region

• 2,509 - London
• 711 - South East
• 417 - East of England
• 293 - South West
• 236 - North West
• 228 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 197 - Scotland
• 166 - West Midlands
• 151 - East Midlands
• 111 - Wales
• 67 - North East
• 30 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 5,167 - United Kingdom
• 21 - France
• 13 - Australia
• 10 - United States
• 7 - Ireland
• 7 - Germany
• 6 - Belgium
• 5 - Switzerland
• 4 - Sweden
• 3 - Netherlands
• 3 - Canada
• 3 - Spain
• 2 - Norway
• 2 - Jersey
• 2 - Guernsey
• 2 - Vietnam
• 2 - China
• 2 - Denmark
• 1 - New Zealand
• 1 - Singapore
• 1 - Qatar
• 1 - Malaysia
• 1 - Iceland
• 1 - Isle of Man
• 1 - Croatia
• 1 - Hong Kong
• 1 - Cyprus
• 1 - Chile
• 1 - South Africa