Remove Autism from the definition of Mental Disorder in the Mental Health Act

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Popularity

This petition has 2,657 signatures in total, with signatories from 613 constituencies. That makes it the 4,243rd most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 59% (average) and a Local Issue Rating of 38% (high).

Signatures by Constituency

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

Signatures by Region

• 411 - South East
• 276 - South West
• 271 - North East
• 264 - London
• 257 - North West
• 239 - West Midlands
• 194 - East of England
• 186 - Scotland
• 161 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 147 - East Midlands
• 105 - Wales
• 78 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 2,629 - United Kingdom
• 4 - Spain
• 4 - France
• 3 - United States
• 3 - Guernsey
• 3 - Ireland
• 2 - Australia
• 2 - South Africa
• 1 - Malta
• 1 - Nigeria
• 1 - Netherlands
• 1 - Portugal
• 1 - Singapore
• 1 - Finland
• 1 - Israel