Remove shortage occupation codes and NHS roles from Tier 2 Visa cap

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Popularity

This petition has 3,038 signatures in total, with signatories from 566 constituencies. That makes it the 3,913th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 44% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 50% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

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

Signatures by Region

• 933 - London
• 481 - South East
• 274 - East of England
• 226 - North West
• 207 - South West
• 188 - Scotland
• 150 - East Midlands
• 145 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 116 - West Midlands
• 105 - Wales
• 93 - North East
• 26 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 2,996 - United Kingdom
• 9 - Australia
• 5 - United States
• 4 - New Zealand
• 4 - South Africa
• 4 - India
• 3 - France
• 2 - Ireland
• 2 - Turkey
• 2 - China
• 2 - Spain
• 1 - Singapore
• 1 - Ukraine
• 1 - Switzerland
• 1 - Uruguay
• 1 - Japan