Review the DFT’s decision to disqualify Virgin Trains from WCP franchise bid.

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Popularity

This petition has 648 signatures in total, with signatories from 205 constituencies. That makes it the 8,620th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 17% (very low) and a Local Issue Rating of 46% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 24 - Carlisle
• 19 - South Staffordshire
• 16 - Wolverhampton North East
• 12 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 11 - West Bromwich East
• 10 - Wyre and Preston North
• 9 - Workington
• 9 - Penrith and The Border
• 9 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 9 - Makerfield
• 9 - Congleton
• 9 - Ynys Môn
• 9 - Wigan
• 9 - South Ribble
• 8 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 8 - Stockport
• 8 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 8 - Sutton Coldfield
• 7 - Rugby
• 7 - Blackburn
• 7 - Blackley and Broughton
• 7 - Warley
• 7 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 7 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 6 - Preston
• 6 - Dudley South
• 6 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 6 - Tatton
• 6 - Milton Keynes South
• 6 - Chorley
• 6 - Wolverhampton South East
• 6 - Hazel Grove
• 6 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 6 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 5 - Weaver Vale
• 5 - Denton and Reddish
• 5 - Manchester, Gorton
• 5 - West Bromwich West
• 5 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 5 - Bolton West
• 5 - Walsall North
• 5 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 5 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 5 - Wolverhampton South West
• 4 - Cannock Chase
• 4 - Ribble Valley
• 4 - Manchester Central
• 4 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 4 - Stone
• 4 - City of Chester
• 4 - Walsall South
• 4 - Manchester, Withington
• 4 - Stafford
• 4 - East Dunbartonshire
• 4 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 3 - Sutton and Cheam
• 3 - Telford
• 3 - Nuneaton
• 3 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 3 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 3 - The Wrekin
• 3 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 3 - Macclesfield
• 3 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 3 - Leigh
• 3 - East Renfrewshire
• 3 - Meriden
• 3 - Salford and Eccles
• 3 - Battersea
• 3 - Birmingham, Perry Barr
• 3 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 3 - Blackpool South
• 3 - Bolton South East
• 3 - Bosworth
• 3 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 3 - West Lancashire
• 3 - Coventry North East
• 3 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 3 - St Helens North
• 2 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 2 - Solihull
• 2 - Islington North
• 2 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 2 - Streatham
• 2 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 2 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 2 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 2 - North East Hertfordshire
• 2 - Milton Keynes North
• 2 - North Herefordshire
• 2 - North Devon
• 2 - Horsham
• 2 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 2 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 2 - Wallasey
• 2 - Barrow and Furness
• 2 - Dudley North
• 2 - Don Valley
• 2 - Warrington North
• 2 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 2 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 2 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 2 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 2 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 2 - Bromsgrove
• 2 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 2 - Vauxhall
• 2 - Hayes and Harlington
• 2 - Coventry South
• 2 - Angus
• 2 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 2 - Tamworth
• 2 - Banff and Buchan
• 2 - Garston and Halewood
• 2 - Torbay
• 2 - Barking
• 2 - Esher and Walton
• 2 - Vale of Clwyd
• 1 - South Norfolk
• 1 - Southampton, Test
• 1 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 1 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 1 - South Derbyshire
• 1 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 1 - Wyre Forest
• 1 - Southport
• 1 - Worcester
• 1 - Strangford
• 1 - Stourbridge
• 1 - Tewkesbury
• 1 - Tooting
• 1 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 1 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 1 - Walthamstow
• 1 - Warrington South
• 1 - Watford
• 1 - Wealden
• 1 - West Ham
• 1 - Westminster North
• 1 - West Worcestershire
• 1 - Wirral South
• 1 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 1 - Sheffield Central
• 1 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 1 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 1 - Chichester
• 1 - Copeland
• 1 - Coventry North West
• 1 - Crawley
• 1 - Croydon South
• 1 - Derby North
• 1 - Doncaster Central
• 1 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 1 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 1 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 1 - East Lothian
• 1 - Eddisbury
• 1 - Cheadle
• 1 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 1 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 1 - Aylesbury
• 1 - Banbury
• 1 - Bedford
• 1 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 1 - Birkenhead
• 1 - Birmingham, Hodge Hill
• 1 - Bolton North East
• 1 - Bootle
• 1 - Braintree
• 1 - Bristol North West
• 1 - Bristol West
• 1 - Broxbourne
• 1 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 1 - Edinburgh West
• 1 - Enfield, Southgate
• 1 - Mid Derbyshire
• 1 - Midlothian
• 1 - Mid Sussex
• 1 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 1 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 1 - North Shropshire
• 1 - North Warwickshire
• 1 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 1 - Oldham West and Royton
• 1 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 1 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 1 - Redditch
• 1 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 1 - Luton North
• 1 - Liverpool, Walton
• 1 - Lincoln
• 1 - Exeter
• 1 - Glasgow Central
• 1 - Glasgow South West
• 1 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 1 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 1 - Hertsmere
• 1 - Heywood and Middleton
• 1 - High Peak
• 1 - Ilford South
• 1 - Kettering
• 1 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 1 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 1 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 1 - Sefton Central

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

Signatures by Region

• 269 - North West
• 202 - West Midlands
• 42 - London
• 32 - South East
• 25 - Scotland
• 18 - East of England
• 14 - Wales
• 9 - East Midlands
• 9 - South West
• 6 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 2 - North East
• 1 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 647 - United Kingdom
• 1 - Namibia