Give new fathers a right to six weeks paid paternity leave

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Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 667 signatures in total, with signatories from 276 constituencies. That makes it the 8,463rd most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 25% (very low) and a Local Issue Rating of 41% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 48 - Exeter
• 21 - East Devon
• 13 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 13 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 11 - Bristol South
• 10 - Central Devon
• 8 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 8 - South West Devon
• 7 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 6 - Colchester
• 5 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 5 - Taunton Deane
• 5 - Bristol North West
• 5 - Peterborough
• 4 - North Norfolk
• 4 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 4 - Bristol West
• 4 - Cheltenham
• 4 - North West Hampshire
• 4 - Chippenham
• 4 - North Devon
• 4 - Swansea East
• 4 - Swansea West
• 4 - Wallasey
• 4 - Epsom and Ewell
• 4 - Weston-super-Mare
• 4 - St Albans
• 4 - Mid Sussex
• 4 - South West Wiltshire
• 4 - Wirral West
• 3 - Newton Abbot
• 3 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 3 - Eastbourne
• 3 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 3 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 3 - Ipswich
• 3 - North East Somerset
• 3 - Harwich and North Essex
• 3 - Witham
• 3 - Kettering
• 3 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 3 - Gower
• 3 - Gosport
• 3 - Grantham and Stamford
• 3 - Great Yarmouth
• 3 - Wycombe
• 3 - Maldon
• 3 - Kingswood
• 3 - Cannock Chase
• 3 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 3 - Orpington
• 3 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 3 - South West Bedfordshire
• 3 - Birkenhead
• 3 - Nottingham East
• 3 - Thornbury and Yate
• 3 - Wells
• 3 - Basildon and Billericay
• 2 - South Norfolk
• 2 - Suffolk Coastal
• 2 - South Dorset
• 2 - Thirsk and Malton
• 2 - Somerton and Frome
• 2 - Mid Derbyshire
• 2 - Stretford and Urmston
• 2 - Woking
• 2 - Ludlow
• 2 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 2 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 2 - St Ives
• 2 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 2 - Leeds Central
• 2 - Leicester West
• 2 - Southampton, Itchen
• 2 - Stockton North
• 2 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 2 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 2 - Winchester
• 2 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 2 - West Ham
• 2 - Portsmouth South
• 2 - Penrith and The Border
• 2 - North Somerset
• 2 - Oxford East
• 2 - Wellingborough
• 2 - North West Durham
• 2 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 2 - Nottingham North
• 2 - North West Norfolk
• 2 - North East Hampshire
• 2 - Redcar
• 2 - Salisbury
• 2 - Saffron Walden
• 2 - Milton Keynes South
• 2 - Wimbledon
• 2 - Morley and Outwood
• 2 - Rushcliffe
• 2 - Rugby
• 2 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 2 - Reigate
• 2 - North East Derbyshire
• 2 - Norwich North
• 2 - Newport West
• 2 - Gloucester
• 2 - Ashfield
• 2 - Bishop Auckland
• 2 - Torfaen
• 2 - Stafford
• 2 - Eastleigh
• 2 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 2 - Ealing North
• 2 - Barking
• 2 - Crawley
• 2 - Barnsley East
• 2 - Coventry North West
• 2 - Basingstoke
• 2 - Chorley
• 2 - Chipping Barnet
• 2 - Bassetlaw
• 2 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 2 - Cynon Valley
• 2 - Halton
• 2 - Braintree
• 2 - Llanelli
• 2 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 2 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 2 - Pontypridd
• 2 - East Ham
• 2 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 2 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 2 - Blyth Valley
• 2 - Meriden
• 2 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 2 - Vauxhall
• 2 - Hemsworth
• 2 - Broadland
• 1 - Caerphilly
• 1 - Bedford
• 1 - Tunbridge Wells
• 1 - Walsall South
• 1 - Congleton
• 1 - Tynemouth
• 1 - Twickenham
• 1 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 1 - Cardiff Central
• 1 - Maidenhead
• 1 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 1 - Livingston
• 1 - Devizes
• 1 - Dudley South
• 1 - Streatham
• 1 - Lewes
• 1 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 1 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 1 - North East Bedfordshire
• 1 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 1 - Telford
• 1 - Edinburgh South West
• 1 - Stevenage
• 1 - Thurrock
• 1 - Croydon North
• 1 - Truro and Falmouth
• 1 - Watford
• 1 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 1 - Midlothian
• 1 - Wirral South
• 1 - Glasgow South West
• 1 - Glasgow South
• 1 - Glasgow North West
• 1 - Worcester
• 1 - Glasgow North East
• 1 - Edinburgh South
• 1 - East Dunbartonshire
• 1 - Wyre Forest
• 1 - Lagan Valley
• 1 - Dundee West
• 1 - Newry and Armagh
• 1 - West Tyrone
• 1 - Aberdeen North
• 1 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 1 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 1 - Delyn
• 1 - West Suffolk
• 1 - Ogmore
• 1 - Bridgend
• 1 - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
• 1 - Waveney
• 1 - Wealden
• 1 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 1 - Neath
• 1 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 1 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 1 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 1 - Clwyd South
• 1 - West Bromwich West
• 1 - Arfon
• 1 - Monmouth
• 1 - West Worcestershire
• 1 - Aberavon
• 1 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 1 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 1 - Horsham
• 1 - Coventry South
• 1 - Corby
• 1 - Clacton
• 1 - Chichester
• 1 - Chelmsford
• 1 - Cheadle
• 1 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 1 - Calder Valley
• 1 - Bury North
• 1 - Burton
• 1 - Daventry
• 1 - Doncaster North
• 1 - Dover
• 1 - Hertford and Stortford
• 1 - Hendon
• 1 - Hazel Grove
• 1 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 1 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 1 - Feltham and Heston
• 1 - Fareham
• 1 - Rochford and Southend East
• 1 - Epping Forest
• 1 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 1 - Buckingham
• 1 - Bristol East
• 1 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 1 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 1 - Ashford
• 1 - Arundel and South Downs
• 1 - Aldershot
• 1 - Cardiff West
• 1 - Beverley and Holderness
• 1 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 1 - North East Fife
• 1 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 1 - Aylesbury
• 1 - Banbury
• 1 - Bath
• 1 - Bournemouth West
• 1 - Bournemouth East
• 1 - Bosworth
• 1 - Bolton West
• 1 - Bolton South East
• 1 - Blaydon
• 1 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 1 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 1 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 1 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 1 - Westminster North
• 1 - St Austell and Newquay
• 1 - Salford and Eccles
• 1 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 1 - Rotherham
• 1 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 1 - Romford
• 1 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 1 - Preston
• 1 - Pendle
• 1 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 1 - Oldham West and Royton
• 1 - Sheffield South East
• 1 - Shipley
• 1 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 1 - Southend West
• 1 - Southampton, Test
• 1 - South West Norfolk
• 1 - South Swindon
• 1 - South Shields
• 1 - South Northamptonshire
• 1 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 1 - South Cambridgeshire
• 1 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 1 - Solihull
• 1 - Norwich South
• 1 - Northampton South
• 1 - North Wiltshire
• 1 - Lewisham East
• 1 - Leigh
• 1 - Leicester East
• 1 - Leeds West
• 1 - Leeds East
• 1 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 1 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 1 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 1 - Ilford South
• 1 - Hyndburn
• 1 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 1 - Lincoln
• 1 - Loughborough
• 1 - North Warwickshire
• 1 - North Swindon
• 1 - North Herefordshire
• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 1 - Mitcham and Morden
• 1 - Milton Keynes North
• 1 - Middlesbrough
• 1 - Manchester, Gorton
• 1 - Makerfield
• 1 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 1 - Hove

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

Signatures by Region

• 210 - South West
• 85 - East of England
• 71 - South East
• 49 - London
• 42 - Wales
• 41 - North West
• 35 - East Midlands
• 32 - West Midlands
• 26 - Scotland
• 23 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 19 - North East
• 3 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 667 - United Kingdom