Increase statutory maternity pay to match other government pay amounts

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Popularity

This petition has 2,358 signatures in total, with signatories from 564 constituencies. That makes it the 4,520th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 48% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 44% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

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

Signatures by Region

• 594 - Scotland
• 266 - London
• 248 - North West
• 210 - West Midlands
• 189 - South East
• 182 - East of England
• 176 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 124 - South West
• 116 - East Midlands
• 84 - North East
• 57 - Wales
• 21 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 2,355 - United Kingdom
• 1 - Canada
• 1 - Italy
• 1 - Malta