Class pets as 'dependents' to allow owners to take leave for medical treatment.

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Popularity

This petition has 2,226 signatures in total, with signatories from 573 constituencies. That makes it the 4,712th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 56% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 37% (high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 30 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 20 - Aberdeen North
• 19 - Truro and Falmouth
• 19 - Gordon
• 16 - Banff and Buchan
• 14 - Ashford
• 14 - St Austell and Newquay
• 13 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 13 - Louth and Horncastle
• 13 - Eastleigh
• 13 - Stockport
• 11 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 11 - Newbury
• 11 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 11 - Falkirk
• 11 - Camborne and Redruth
• 11 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 10 - Torridge and West Devon
• 10 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 10 - St Ives
• 10 - Stretford and Urmston
• 10 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 10 - North West Hampshire
• 10 - Makerfield
• 9 - Isle of Wight
• 9 - Alyn and Deeside
• 9 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 9 - Amber Valley
• 9 - Eddisbury
• 8 - South Cambridgeshire
• 8 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 8 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 8 - Corby
• 8 - Bridgend
• 8 - Mid Sussex
• 8 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 8 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 8 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 8 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 8 - Southampton, Itchen
• 8 - Meriden
• 8 - South Northamptonshire
• 8 - Broxtowe
• 7 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 7 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 7 - Wigan
• 7 - Kingswood
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• 7 - Salford and Eccles
• 7 - Colchester
• 7 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 7 - South Leicestershire
• 7 - Leigh
• 7 - Oldham West and Royton
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• 7 - Denton and Reddish
• 6 - South Norfolk
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• 6 - Leeds Central
• 6 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 6 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
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• 6 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 6 - Coventry North West
• 6 - Huddersfield
• 6 - High Peak
• 6 - Doncaster North
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• 5 - Kenilworth and Southam
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• 5 - Braintree
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• 5 - Mid Norfolk
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• 5 - Sheffield, Hallam
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• 4 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
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• 4 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 4 - Glasgow Central
• 4 - Southampton, Test
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• 4 - Heywood and Middleton
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• 4 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 4 - Sefton Central
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• 4 - Sedgefield
• 4 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 4 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
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• 4 - Rochford and Southend East
• 4 - Southport
• 4 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 4 - South West Surrey
• 4 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 4 - Dudley South
• 4 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 4 - Dundee East
• 4 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 4 - Wolverhampton South West
• 4 - Cheadle
• 4 - Thornbury and Yate
• 4 - Bexhill and Battle
• 4 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 4 - West Suffolk
• 4 - Bury South
• 4 - Warwick and Leamington
• 4 - Wansbeck
• 4 - Copeland
• 4 - Bootle
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• 4 - West Dunbartonshire
• 4 - Chorley
• 4 - Chatham and Aylesford
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• 4 - Dover
• 4 - Tamworth
• 4 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 4 - Ashfield
• 4 - Argyll and Bute
• 4 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 4 - Eltham
• 4 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 4 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 4 - Wellingborough
• 4 - Cardiff North
• 4 - Totnes
• 4 - Aldershot
• 4 - Stone
• 4 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 4 - East Yorkshire
• 4 - Ceredigion
• 4 - Batley and Spen
• 4 - Central Ayrshire
• 4 - Cambridge
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• 4 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 3 - Sevenoaks
• 3 - Morley and Outwood
• 3 - The Cotswolds
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• 3 - Sherwood
• 3 - Selby and Ainsty
• 3 - Mole Valley
• 3 - Skipton and Ripon
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• 3 - Maidstone and The Weald
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• 3 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 3 - Bishop Auckland
• 3 - North Shropshire
• 3 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 3 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 3 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 3 - Beckenham
• 3 - North West Norfolk
• 3 - Barking
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• 3 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 3 - Reigate
• 3 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 3 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 3 - Pudsey
• 3 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 3 - Ynys Môn
• 3 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 3 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 3 - North East Fife
• 3 - Bradford South
• 3 - Bracknell
• 3 - Salisbury
• 3 - Bournemouth West
• 3 - Boston and Skegness
• 3 - Rutland and Melton
• 3 - Windsor
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• 3 - Blaenau Gwent
• 3 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
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• 3 - Tottenham
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• 3 - East Surrey
• 3 - Croydon Central
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• 3 - South Thanet
• 3 - Edinburgh West
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• 3 - Tynemouth
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• 3 - Darlington
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• 3 - Thurrock
• 3 - Dundee West
• 3 - Harlow
• 3 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 3 - Great Yarmouth
• 3 - East Renfrewshire
• 3 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 3 - Hastings and Rye
• 3 - Don Valley
• 3 - Doncaster Central
• 3 - Hemsworth
• 3 - Daventry
• 3 - Ipswich
• 3 - South Suffolk
• 3 - Warrington North
• 3 - Warrington South
• 3 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 3 - Chesterfield
• 3 - Chesham and Amersham
• 3 - Watford
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• 3 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 3 - Castle Point
• 3 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 3 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 3 - West Lancashire
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• 3 - Knowsley
• 3 - Chipping Barnet
• 3 - Walsall North
• 3 - Glasgow East
• 3 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 3 - Epping Forest
• 3 - South Staffordshire
• 3 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 3 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 3 - Enfield North
• 2 - Redditch
• 2 - Workington
• 2 - Portsmouth North
• 2 - Suffolk Coastal
• 2 - Wyre and Preston North
• 2 - Stourbridge
• 2 - York Central
• 2 - Preston
• 2 - Stockton North
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 2 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 2 - Swansea East
• 2 - Brigg and Goole
• 2 - Vale of Clwyd
• 2 - Scunthorpe
• 2 - Wallasey
• 2 - Walthamstow
• 2 - Wantage
• 2 - Warley
• 2 - Slough
• 2 - Southend West
• 2 - Washington and Sunderland West
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• 2 - The Wrekin
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• 2 - Wolverhampton South East
• 2 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 2 - Spelthorne
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• 2 - Telford
• 2 - Rugby
• 2 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 2 - Wirral West
• 2 - Saffron Walden
• 2 - Witham
• 2 - Liverpool, Walton
• 2 - Glasgow North
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• 2 - Eastbourne
• 2 - Dudley North
• 2 - Dewsbury
• 2 - Aberavon
• 2 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 2 - Harrow West
• 2 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 2 - Leicester South
• 2 - Glasgow South West
• 2 - Islwyn
• 2 - Hove
• 2 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 2 - Hertford and Stortford
• 2 - Henley
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• 2 - Nuneaton
• 2 - North Antrim
• 2 - Newport East
• 2 - Nottingham North
• 2 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 2 - Moray
• 2 - Nottingham East
• 2 - Northampton South
• 2 - Poole
• 2 - Pontypridd
• 2 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 2 - Macclesfield
• 2 - North West Leicestershire
• 2 - Maidenhead
• 2 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 2 - North Down
• 1 - Cardiff West
• 1 - Chelmsford
• 1 - Cardiff Central
• 1 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 1 - Bradford West
• 1 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 1 - Charnwood
• 1 - Clacton
• 1 - Upper Bann
• 1 - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
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• 1 - City of Chester
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• 1 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 1 - North Thanet
• 1 - Wentworth and Dearne
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• 1 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 1 - Belfast East
• 1 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 1 - Bath
• 1 - Wrexham
• 1 - Barnsley East
• 1 - Penrith and The Border
• 1 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 1 - Oxford East
• 1 - Blackpool South
• 1 - Orpington
• 1 - Caerphilly
• 1 - Bury North
• 1 - Richmond Park
• 1 - Barnsley Central
• 1 - Orkney and Shetland
• 1 - Bristol West
• 1 - Redcar
• 1 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 1 - West Worcestershire
• 1 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 1 - Bolton South East
• 1 - Wirral South
• 1 - York Outer
• 1 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 1 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 1 - Manchester, Withington
• 1 - Hexham
• 1 - South West Norfolk
• 1 - Sheffield, Heeley
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• 1 - Mid Derbyshire
• 1 - St Albans
• 1 - Harrow East
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• 1 - Stevenage
• 1 - Hammersmith
• 1 - South Swindon
• 1 - Islington North
• 1 - Maldon
• 1 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 1 - Lewisham East
• 1 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 1 - Leicester West
• 1 - Leeds West
• 1 - Leeds North West
• 1 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 1 - Leeds East
• 1 - Lagan Valley
• 1 - Kensington
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• 1 - South Ribble
• 1 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 1 - Halifax
• 1 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 1 - Newport West
• 1 - East Antrim
• 1 - Easington
• 1 - Ealing, Southall
• 1 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 1 - Dunfermline and West Fife
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• 1 - Derby South
• 1 - Derbyshire Dales
• 1 - Delyn
• 1 - East Devon
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• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
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• 1 - Gower
• 1 - Glasgow North East
• 1 - Na h-Eileanan an Iar
• 1 - Neath
• 1 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 1 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 1 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 1 - Exeter
• 1 - Sunderland Central
• 1 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 1 - Sutton Coldfield
• 1 - Cynon Valley

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

Signatures by Region

• 315 - South East
• 305 - North West
• 298 - Scotland
• 243 - South West
• 195 - East of England
• 195 - West Midlands
• 173 - East Midlands
• 156 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 99 - London
• 91 - Wales
• 80 - North East
• 8 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 2,216 - United Kingdom
• 5 - Ireland
• 3 - Australia
• 1 - Belgium
• 1 - South Africa