Amend the Official Secrets Act to prevent its use in cases of child abuse.

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Popularity

This petition has 1,694 signatures in total, with signatories from 576 constituencies. That makes it the 5,435th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 59% (average) and a Local Issue Rating of 34% (high).

Signatures by Constituency

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

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

Signatures by Region

• 220 - Scotland
• 213 - North West
• 212 - South East
• 167 - London
• 163 - South West
• 132 - East Midlands
• 129 - East of England
• 118 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 99 - West Midlands
• 89 - Wales
• 74 - North East
• 30 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 1,668 - United Kingdom
• 5 - Spain
• 3 - United States
• 3 - France
• 2 - Portugal
• 2 - Cambodia
• 2 - Australia
• 1 - Greece
• 1 - Germany
• 1 - Italy
• 1 - Cyprus
• 1 - Malaysia
• 1 - Philippines
• 1 - Belgium
• 1 - Thailand
• 1 - Ireland