Remove the requirement to pay VAT by churches, specifically on building works.

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Popularity

This petition has 1,751 signatures in total, with signatories from 386 constituencies. That makes it the 5,347th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 24% (very low) and a Local Issue Rating of 59% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 66 - Basingstoke
• 59 - Woking
• 42 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 40 - Derbyshire Dales
• 39 - Denton and Reddish
• 37 - Meon Valley
• 35 - Canterbury
• 35 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 28 - The Cotswolds
• 27 - Daventry
• 27 - Amber Valley
• 25 - West Dorset
• 24 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 23 - North West Hampshire
• 23 - Brigg and Goole
• 22 - East Hampshire
• 22 - Isle of Wight
• 21 - Havant
• 19 - Henley
• 18 - Truro and Falmouth
• 16 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 16 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 16 - Portsmouth South
• 15 - South West Surrey
• 15 - North East Hampshire
• 15 - Croydon Central
• 15 - Mid Derbyshire
• 13 - Guildford
• 12 - Reading East
• 12 - Louth and Horncastle
• 11 - Reading West
• 11 - Southampton, Itchen
• 10 - Warwick and Leamington
• 10 - Vale of Clwyd
• 10 - Gosport
• 10 - Morley and Outwood
• 10 - South Dorset
• 10 - Hyndburn
• 9 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 9 - Poole
• 9 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 9 - Wellingborough
• 9 - Hazel Grove
• 9 - South West Norfolk
• 9 - Monmouth
• 9 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 9 - Lewes
• 9 - South Thanet
• 8 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 8 - Maidenhead
• 8 - Eastleigh
• 8 - Corby
• 8 - New Forest West
• 8 - Wokingham
• 8 - Fareham
• 8 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 7 - Surrey Heath
• 7 - Wirral West
• 7 - Rutland and Melton
• 6 - South Northamptonshire
• 6 - Rushcliffe
• 6 - Portsmouth North
• 6 - Bracknell
• 6 - Bristol East
• 6 - Slough
• 5 - Solihull
• 5 - Glasgow North West
• 5 - Shipley
• 5 - Salford and Eccles
• 5 - Croydon North
• 5 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 5 - Mansfield
• 5 - Fylde
• 5 - South Cambridgeshire
• 5 - Keighley
• 5 - Esher and Walton
• 5 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 5 - Grantham and Stamford
• 5 - York Outer
• 5 - Copeland
• 5 - Watford
• 5 - Windsor
• 5 - Witney
• 5 - Bishop Auckland
• 5 - Yeovil
• 4 - Burton
• 4 - Skipton and Ripon
• 4 - North Devon
• 4 - Ealing North
• 4 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 4 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 4 - Dover
• 4 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 4 - Stretford and Urmston
• 4 - Calder Valley
• 4 - Winchester
• 4 - Hertsmere
• 4 - Bromsgrove
• 4 - Spelthorne
• 4 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 4 - Makerfield
• 4 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 4 - Dewsbury
• 4 - Wells
• 4 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 4 - Aldershot
• 4 - Nottingham South
• 4 - Buckingham
• 4 - Ashford
• 4 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 4 - Christchurch
• 4 - North Herefordshire
• 4 - Ashfield
• 3 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 3 - Bradford East
• 3 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 3 - Oxford East
• 3 - Bournemouth East
• 3 - South West Hertfordshire
• 3 - Broadland
• 3 - Huntingdon
• 3 - High Peak
• 3 - Broxtowe
• 3 - Arundel and South Downs
• 3 - Redditch
• 3 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 3 - Bolton South East
• 3 - South East Cornwall
• 3 - Newport East
• 3 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 3 - Salisbury
• 3 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 3 - North Dorset
• 3 - Aylesbury
• 3 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 3 - North Thanet
• 3 - New Forest East
• 3 - Mole Valley
• 3 - Lichfield
• 3 - Worcester
• 3 - Wycombe
• 3 - Peterborough
• 3 - Newton Abbot
• 3 - Meriden
• 3 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 3 - Mid Sussex
• 3 - North East Somerset
• 3 - Taunton Deane
• 3 - Dundee West
• 3 - Erewash
• 3 - Twickenham
• 3 - Glasgow South
• 3 - West Worcestershire
• 3 - Coventry South
• 3 - East Dunbartonshire
• 3 - Cambridge
• 3 - West Suffolk
• 3 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 3 - Torridge and West Devon
• 3 - Derby North
• 3 - Derby South
• 3 - Eltham
• 3 - Stourbridge
• 2 - Weaver Vale
• 2 - Tynemouth
• 2 - Loughborough
• 2 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 2 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 2 - Wolverhampton South West
• 2 - North Cornwall
• 2 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 2 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 2 - Torbay
• 2 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 2 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 2 - Newbury
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 2 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 2 - Ceredigion
• 2 - North Norfolk
• 2 - Bedford
• 2 - Sheffield South East
• 2 - Chipping Barnet
• 2 - Barrow and Furness
• 2 - Warrington South
• 2 - Congleton
• 2 - Banbury
• 2 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 2 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 2 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 2 - Cleethorpes
• 2 - Reigate
• 2 - Ribble Valley
• 2 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 2 - Oldham West and Royton
• 2 - North Swindon
• 2 - Colchester
• 2 - Chesterfield
• 2 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 2 - North West Leicestershire
• 2 - Warrington North
• 2 - Sefton Central
• 2 - Nottingham East
• 2 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 2 - Chippenham
• 2 - Wakefield
• 2 - City of Durham
• 2 - St Austell and Newquay
• 2 - Leigh
• 2 - Thirsk and Malton
• 2 - Leeds West
• 2 - South Leicestershire
• 2 - Bolton West
• 2 - Cardiff North
• 2 - South West Bedfordshire
• 2 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 2 - Stirling
• 2 - South West Devon
• 2 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 2 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 2 - Cardiff Central
• 2 - Gower
• 2 - Broxbourne
• 2 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 2 - Camborne and Redruth
• 2 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 2 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 2 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 2 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 2 - Bournemouth West
• 2 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 2 - Hammersmith
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 2 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 2 - South Derbyshire
• 2 - Bolsover
• 2 - Bolton North East
• 2 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 2 - Manchester Central
• 2 - Somerton and Frome
• 2 - Hastings and Rye
• 1 - Selby and Ainsty
• 1 - Warley
• 1 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 1 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 1 - Rugby
• 1 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 1 - Walsall North
• 1 - Stockport
• 1 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 1 - Wansbeck
• 1 - Stroud
• 1 - Wantage
• 1 - Saffron Walden
• 1 - Sevenoaks
• 1 - Weston-super-Mare
• 1 - Tottenham
• 1 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 1 - West Bromwich West
• 1 - Workington
• 1 - Thurrock
• 1 - Southampton, Test
• 1 - Wyre Forest
• 1 - Wyre and Preston North
• 1 - Southend West
• 1 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 1 - York Central
• 1 - St Albans
• 1 - Sutton Coldfield
• 1 - Tamworth
• 1 - Aberconwy
• 1 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 1 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 1 - Stone
• 1 - South Suffolk
• 1 - Tooting
• 1 - Rother Valley
• 1 - Great Grimsby
• 1 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 1 - Don Valley
• 1 - Doncaster Central
• 1 - Croydon South
• 1 - Crawley
• 1 - Colne Valley
• 1 - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
• 1 - Clwyd West
• 1 - City of Chester
• 1 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 1 - Chorley
• 1 - Ealing, Southall
• 1 - Eastbourne
• 1 - East Devon
• 1 - Glasgow Central
• 1 - Gedling
• 1 - Garston and Halewood
• 1 - Gainsborough
• 1 - Forest of Dean
• 1 - Epping Forest
• 1 - Enfield, Southgate
• 1 - Edinburgh East
• 1 - East Yorkshire
• 1 - East Renfrewshire
• 1 - East Lothian
• 1 - Chichester
• 1 - Cheltenham
• 1 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 1 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 1 - Bosworth
• 1 - Blaydon
• 1 - Blaenau Gwent
• 1 - Blackpool South
• 1 - Blackburn
• 1 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 1 - Bexhill and Battle
• 1 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 1 - Beaconsfield
• 1 - Burnley
• 1 - Bury North
• 1 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 1 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 1 - Chelmsford
• 1 - Cheadle
• 1 - Charnwood
• 1 - Central Devon
• 1 - Central Ayrshire
• 1 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 1 - Carlisle
• 1 - Cardiff West
• 1 - Cannock Chase
• 1 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 1 - Bassetlaw
• 1 - Great Yarmouth
• 1 - Rochester and Strood
• 1 - North Shropshire
• 1 - North East Fife
• 1 - North East Derbyshire
• 1 - Northampton South
• 1 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 1 - Milton Keynes North
• 1 - Mid Norfolk
• 1 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 1 - Manchester, Withington
• 1 - Manchester, Gorton
• 1 - Macclesfield
• 1 - North Somerset
• 1 - North West Durham
• 1 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 1 - Richmond Park
• 1 - Putney
• 1 - Preston
• 1 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 1 - Penrith and The Border
• 1 - Pendle
• 1 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 1 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 1 - Ogmore
• 1 - Norwich South
• 1 - North Wiltshire
• 1 - Liverpool, Walton
• 1 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 1 - Huddersfield
• 1 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 1 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 1 - Hertford and Stortford
• 1 - Hendon
• 1 - Hemsworth
• 1 - Hemel Hempstead
• 1 - Hayes and Harlington
• 1 - Harborough
• 1 - Halton
• 1 - Halifax
• 1 - Ilford North
• 1 - Ilford South
• 1 - Ipswich
• 1 - Lincoln
• 1 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 1 - Leicester South
• 1 - Leicester East
• 1 - Leeds North West
• 1 - Leeds North East
• 1 - Lagan Valley
• 1 - Knowsley
• 1 - Kettering
• 1 - Jarrow
• 1 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 1 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington

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

Signatures by Region

• 665 - South East
• 218 - East Midlands
• 217 - South West
• 181 - North West
• 110 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 92 - West Midlands
• 86 - East of England
• 75 - London
• 38 - Wales
• 34 - Scotland
• 16 - North East
• 1 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 1,748 - United Kingdom
• 1 - Cyprus
• 1 - Netherlands
• 1 - Uruguay