Make General Dental Council (GDC) a tax-payer funded organisation.

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Popularity

This petition has 2,834 signatures in total, with signatories from 595 constituencies. That makes it the 4,115th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 53% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 42% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

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

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

Signatures by Region

• 666 - London
• 381 - South East
• 292 - East of England
• 286 - North West
• 209 - West Midlands
• 206 - Scotland
• 194 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 183 - South West
• 145 - East Midlands
• 82 - Wales
• 73 - North East
• 46 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 2,823 - United Kingdom
• 2 - Jersey
• 2 - Greece
• 1 - Canada
• 1 - India
• 1 - Israel
• 1 - Ireland
• 1 - France
• 1 - China
• 1 - Singapore