Extend paid maternity leave by at least four months

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• Statistics

Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 56,988 signatures in total, with signatories from all 650 constituencies. That makes it the 477th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 97% (high) and a Local Issue Rating of 3% (low).

Signatures by Constituency

• 267 - Gloucester
• 238 - Yeovil
• 228 - Stroud
• 195 - North East Bedfordshire
• 190 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 190 - Bedford
• 189 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 185 - Ipswich
• 179 - Bristol South
• 175 - Harlow
• 171 - East Lothian
• 169 - Aylesbury
• 168 - Bury St Edmunds
• 168 - Bristol East
• 166 - Colchester
• 164 - South Leicestershire
• 161 - Hemel Hempstead
• 160 - Thurrock
• 159 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 159 - South Northamptonshire
• 158 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 156 - Doncaster North
• 155 - Sherwood
• 154 - Wigan
• 153 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 153 - Burton
• 152 - South West Bedfordshire
• 152 - Luton South
• 150 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 149 - Tynemouth
• 148 - Chorley
• 147 - Kingswood
• 145 - Charnwood
• 143 - Basingstoke
• 143 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 143 - Castle Point
• 143 - West Ham
• 142 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 142 - Corby
• 142 - Epping Forest
• 141 - Dudley South
• 140 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 139 - Midlothian
• 136 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 136 - Dartford
• 135 - Croydon South
• 135 - Aldershot
• 135 - Don Valley
• 135 - Harwich and North Essex
• 134 - Makerfield
• 131 - Watford
• 131 - Mansfield
• 131 - Harrow East
• 131 - Milton Keynes South
• 129 - Doncaster Central
• 128 - Ashford
• 128 - Banbury
• 128 - East Surrey
• 128 - Saffron Walden
• 127 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 127 - West Dunbartonshire
• 126 - Tewkesbury
• 126 - Milton Keynes North
• 125 - Selby and Ainsty
• 124 - Great Yarmouth
• 124 - Wellingborough
• 124 - Falkirk
• 123 - Livingston
• 123 - Suffolk Coastal
• 123 - South Norfolk
• 123 - York Outer
• 123 - Mid Norfolk
• 122 - Sheffield South East
• 121 - Rochford and Southend East
• 121 - Waveney
• 121 - Cheadle
• 121 - Grantham and Stamford
• 120 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 120 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 120 - Thornbury and Yate
• 120 - St Helens North
• 120 - Wantage
• 120 - Dudley North
• 119 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 119 - Harborough
• 119 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 119 - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
• 119 - Chelmsford
• 119 - Hertford and Stortford
• 118 - Bristol West
• 118 - Peterborough
• 118 - Crawley
• 118 - Rutland and Melton
• 118 - Stockport
• 117 - North Somerset
• 115 - Gravesham
• 115 - Denton and Reddish
• 115 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 115 - Huntingdon
• 115 - Congleton
• 114 - Lincoln
• 114 - West Suffolk
• 114 - Wokingham
• 114 - Southend West
• 114 - New Forest East
• 114 - York Central
• 114 - North Swindon
• 114 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 114 - Northampton South
• 113 - Basildon and Billericay
• 113 - Barking
• 113 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 113 - Brigg and Goole
• 113 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 113 - Northampton North
• 113 - North East Hertfordshire
• 112 - Somerton and Frome
• 112 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 112 - Brent North
• 112 - Exeter
• 111 - Knowsley
• 111 - Weston-super-Mare
• 111 - North West Durham
• 111 - Broadland
• 110 - Ashfield
• 109 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 109 - Bootle
• 109 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 109 - North West Hampshire
• 108 - Edinburgh West
• 108 - North East Hampshire
• 108 - Coventry North West
• 108 - Torbay
• 107 - Hartlepool
• 107 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 107 - Lichfield
• 106 - Camborne and Redruth
• 106 - Eastleigh
• 106 - Bristol North West
• 106 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 105 - Tamworth
• 105 - Fareham
• 105 - Bracknell
• 105 - Rochester and Strood
• 105 - Taunton Deane
• 104 - Morley and Outwood
• 104 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 104 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 104 - Darlington
• 104 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 104 - Stourbridge
• 104 - Clacton
• 103 - Loughborough
• 103 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 103 - Feltham and Heston
• 103 - South Cambridgeshire
• 103 - Hendon
• 103 - Southampton, Itchen
• 103 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 103 - Garston and Halewood
• 102 - Wimbledon
• 102 - Buckingham
• 102 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 102 - Leicester West
• 102 - Walthamstow
• 102 - Bassetlaw
• 101 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 101 - Pudsey
• 101 - Wakefield
• 101 - South West Surrey
• 101 - Leigh
• 101 - Cannock Chase
• 101 - Rugby
• 100 - Hyndburn
• 100 - North East Somerset
• 99 - Bradford South
• 99 - Maldon
• 99 - Glasgow East
• 99 - South West Wiltshire
• 99 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 98 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 98 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 98 - East Ham
• 98 - Reading West
• 98 - Warwick and Leamington
• 98 - Cardiff North
• 98 - Wycombe
• 97 - South Dorset
• 97 - South Staffordshire
• 97 - Blaydon
• 97 - Warrington North
• 97 - Hastings and Rye
• 97 - South West Hertfordshire
• 97 - Hazel Grove
• 97 - Gordon
• 97 - Stevenage
• 96 - Poole
• 96 - Edinburgh South West
• 96 - North Shropshire
• 95 - Salford and Eccles
• 95 - Harrow West
• 95 - Surrey Heath
• 95 - Meriden
• 94 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 94 - North West Leicestershire
• 94 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 94 - Daventry
• 94 - Epsom and Ewell
• 94 - Walsall North
• 93 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 93 - Bosworth
• 93 - Blyth Valley
• 93 - Braintree
• 93 - Windsor
• 92 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 92 - Romford
• 92 - Nuneaton
• 92 - Norwich North
• 92 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 92 - Bromsgrove
• 91 - South Suffolk
• 91 - Luton North
• 91 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 91 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 90 - Wyre and Preston North
• 90 - Stretford and Urmston
• 90 - East Renfrewshire
• 90 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 90 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 90 - Chesterfield
• 90 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 90 - South West Norfolk
• 90 - North Tyneside
• 90 - Broxbourne
• 90 - Woking
• 89 - Central Ayrshire
• 89 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 89 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 89 - Sefton Central
• 89 - Ealing North
• 89 - Spelthorne
• 89 - Rother Valley
• 89 - Hertsmere
• 88 - St Austell and Newquay
• 88 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 88 - St Albans
• 88 - West Bromwich West
• 88 - Bolton West
• 88 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 87 - Salisbury
• 87 - Mitcham and Morden
• 87 - Louth and Horncastle
• 87 - Witham
• 87 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 87 - Reigate
• 87 - Bournemouth West
• 87 - Wansbeck
• 86 - Stirling
• 86 - Kettering
• 86 - Gosport
• 86 - Blackpool South
• 86 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 86 - Skipton and Ripon
• 86 - West Lancashire
• 86 - Eastbourne
• 85 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 85 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 85 - Glasgow North East
• 85 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 85 - Horsham
• 84 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 83 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 83 - Bexhill and Battle
• 83 - Cardiff West
• 82 - East Dunbartonshire
• 82 - Scunthorpe
• 82 - Southampton, Test
• 82 - Croydon North
• 82 - North East Derbyshire
• 82 - Alyn and Deeside
• 82 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 82 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 82 - Ilford South
• 82 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 82 - Blackburn
• 81 - South Ribble
• 81 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 81 - West Bromwich East
• 81 - Mid Worcestershire
• 81 - Edinburgh East
• 81 - Liverpool, Walton
• 81 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 81 - Rushcliffe
• 81 - Leeds West
• 81 - Hemsworth
• 81 - Lewisham East
• 80 - Chipping Barnet
• 80 - Tooting
• 80 - Jarrow
• 80 - Wolverhampton South East
• 80 - Bournemouth East
• 80 - Halton
• 80 - Inverclyde
• 80 - Wealden
• 79 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 79 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 79 - Walsall South
• 79 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 79 - St Ives
• 79 - Erewash
• 79 - Ribble Valley
• 78 - East Devon
• 78 - Sutton and Cheam
• 78 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 78 - Wells
• 78 - South Swindon
• 78 - Esher and Walton
• 78 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 78 - The Cotswolds
• 78 - Mid Derbyshire
• 77 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 77 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 77 - Croydon Central
• 77 - Leicester South
• 76 - Meon Valley
• 76 - Coventry North East
• 76 - Newark
• 76 - Mid Sussex
• 76 - Colne Valley
• 76 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 75 - Lewes
• 75 - Fylde
• 75 - Norwich South
• 75 - Wolverhampton North East
• 75 - Sedgefield
• 75 - Weaver Vale
• 74 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 74 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 74 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 74 - Gateshead
• 74 - City of Chester
• 73 - Foyle
• 73 - South Shields
• 73 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 73 - Cheltenham
• 73 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 73 - Cynon Valley
• 73 - Slough
• 73 - Calder Valley
• 73 - Glasgow South
• 73 - Ilford North
• 72 - Newbury
• 72 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 72 - Glasgow South West
• 72 - Warrington South
• 72 - Reading East
• 72 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 72 - Chichester
• 72 - South Derbyshire
• 72 - Gedling
• 72 - Battersea
• 72 - Leicester East
• 71 - Dundee East
• 71 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 71 - Wolverhampton South West
• 71 - Pontypridd
• 71 - Angus
• 71 - Canterbury
• 70 - Worthing West
• 70 - Witney
• 70 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 70 - Worcester
• 70 - Newport East
• 70 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 69 - Bury South
• 69 - Bolsover
• 69 - Portsmouth North
• 69 - Batley and Spen
• 69 - Redditch
• 69 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 69 - Broxtowe
• 68 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 68 - Brent Central
• 68 - Edinburgh South
• 68 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 68 - Eltham
• 68 - Shipley
• 67 - Glasgow North West
• 67 - Llanelli
• 67 - North Thanet
• 67 - Manchester, Withington
• 67 - Aberdeen South
• 67 - Putney
• 67 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 67 - Sevenoaks
• 67 - Solihull
• 66 - Totnes
• 66 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 66 - Glenrothes
• 66 - Portsmouth South
• 66 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 66 - Forest of Dean
• 66 - Heywood and Middleton
• 65 - Derby North
• 65 - Birkenhead
• 65 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 65 - Oldham West and Royton
• 65 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 65 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 65 - Chesham and Amersham
• 65 - Guildford
• 64 - Chippenham
• 64 - Newton Abbot
• 64 - Wirral South
• 64 - Caerphilly
• 64 - North Devon
• 64 - North Warwickshire
• 64 - Mole Valley
• 64 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 64 - Gainsborough
• 63 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 63 - Devizes
• 63 - Arundel and South Downs
• 63 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 63 - Leeds Central
• 63 - Sheffield Central
• 63 - Streatham
• 63 - Leeds North West
• 63 - High Peak
• 62 - Barnsley Central
• 62 - Barnsley East
• 62 - South West Devon
• 62 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 62 - Southport
• 62 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 62 - Beaconsfield
• 62 - East Hampshire
• 62 - Warley
• 62 - Derby South
• 62 - Hayes and Harlington
• 62 - Sutton Coldfield
• 62 - West Tyrone
• 62 - Eddisbury
• 61 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 61 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 61 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 60 - Pendle
• 60 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 60 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 60 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 60 - Truro and Falmouth
• 60 - North Wiltshire
• 60 - Stafford
• 60 - North West Norfolk
• 59 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 59 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 59 - Huddersfield
• 59 - Wirral West
• 59 - Stockton South
• 59 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 59 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 59 - Dover
• 59 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 59 - Orpington
• 59 - Thirsk and Malton
• 58 - Hexham
• 58 - Dewsbury
• 58 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 58 - Christchurch
• 58 - Amber Valley
• 58 - Tatton
• 58 - The Wrekin
• 58 - Twickenham
• 58 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 57 - Central Devon
• 57 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 57 - South Thanet
• 57 - Maidenhead
• 57 - Stockton North
• 57 - South East Cornwall
• 57 - Nottingham North
• 57 - Bridgend
• 57 - West Dorset
• 56 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 56 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 56 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 56 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 56 - Leeds East
• 56 - Leeds North East
• 56 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 55 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 55 - Enfield, Southgate
• 55 - Easington
• 55 - Halifax
• 55 - Banff and Buchan
• 55 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 55 - Keighley
• 55 - Newport West
• 55 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 54 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 54 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 54 - Telford
• 53 - Aberdeen North
• 53 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 53 - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
• 53 - Glasgow Central
• 53 - Nottingham South
• 53 - Henley
• 53 - Boston and Skegness
• 53 - North Dorset
• 53 - Cardiff Central
• 53 - Burnley
• 52 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 52 - Enfield North
• 52 - Wyre Forest
• 52 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 52 - Bolton South East
• 52 - Coventry South
• 51 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 51 - Nottingham East
• 51 - Macclesfield
• 51 - Penrith and The Border
• 51 - Beckenham
• 51 - Bishop Auckland
• 51 - Ceredigion
• 51 - North Durham
• 51 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 50 - Bath
• 50 - Upper Bann
• 50 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 50 - Argyll and Bute
• 50 - Clwyd West
• 50 - Preston
• 49 - Havant
• 49 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 49 - Delyn
• 49 - Hove
• 49 - North Norfolk
• 48 - Bury North
• 48 - Lagan Valley
• 48 - Birmingham, Perry Barr
• 48 - Arfon
• 48 - Swansea East
• 48 - Torridge and West Devon
• 48 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 47 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 47 - Derbyshire Dales
• 47 - Westminster North
• 47 - Manchester Central
• 47 - Sunderland Central
• 47 - Stone
• 47 - Bradford East
• 47 - Tottenham
• 46 - Carlisle
• 46 - Rotherham
• 46 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 46 - Neath
• 46 - Blackley and Broughton
• 46 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 45 - Wallasey
• 45 - West Worcestershire
• 45 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 45 - Oxford East
• 45 - Birmingham, Hodge Hill
• 45 - Glasgow North
• 44 - Isle of Wight
• 44 - Tunbridge Wells
• 44 - Richmond Park
• 44 - Moray
• 44 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 44 - Bolton North East
• 43 - Torfaen
• 43 - Rochdale
• 43 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 43 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 43 - Monmouth
• 42 - Ealing, Southall
• 42 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 42 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 42 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 41 - Gower
• 40 - Vauxhall
• 40 - Blaenau Gwent
• 40 - Islwyn
• 40 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 40 - City of Durham
• 39 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 39 - Aberconwy
• 39 - Ogmore
• 39 - Hammersmith
• 38 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 38 - Cambridge
• 38 - East Yorkshire
• 38 - Fermanagh and South Tyrone
• 37 - Great Grimsby
• 37 - North Cornwall
• 37 - Barrow and Furness
• 37 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 37 - Manchester, Gorton
• 37 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 36 - Edmonton
• 36 - Dundee West
• 36 - Cleethorpes
• 35 - Islington North
• 35 - Middlesbrough
• 35 - North East Fife
• 35 - Workington
• 35 - Wrexham
• 35 - Rhondda
• 34 - South Antrim
• 34 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 33 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 33 - Strangford
• 33 - New Forest West
• 33 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 32 - Redcar
• 32 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 31 - Winchester
• 31 - Beverley and Holderness
• 31 - Bradford West
• 30 - Ludlow
• 30 - Aberavon
• 29 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 29 - Clwyd South
• 28 - Belfast South
• 28 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 27 - Montgomeryshire
• 26 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 26 - Belfast North
• 25 - Ynys Môn
• 25 - Belfast East
• 24 - North Herefordshire
• 24 - Vale of Clwyd
• 23 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 23 - Swansea West
• 23 - Mid Ulster
• 23 - Newry and Armagh
• 22 - East Antrim
• 21 - Kensington
• 21 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 21 - North Down
• 21 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 21 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 21 - Copeland
• 19 - North Antrim
• 18 - South Down
• 16 - East Londonderry
• 15 - Orkney and Shetland
• 12 - Belfast West
• 5 - Na h-Eileanan an Iar

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

Signatures by Region

• 7,076 - South East
• 6,863 - East of England
• 5,921 - North West
• 5,362 - London
• 5,252 - South West
• 4,535 - Scotland
• 4,421 - West Midlands
• 4,293 - East Midlands
• 4,078 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 2,164 - Wales
• 2,049 - North East
• 571 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 56,917 - United Kingdom
• 9 - Spain
• 9 - Australia
• 8 - France
• 7 - United States
• 5 - Isle of Man
• 4 - Ireland
• 3 - New Zealand
• 3 - Canada
• 3 - United Arab Emirates
• 2 - Norway
• 2 - Sweden
• 2 - Guernsey
• 2 - Tuvalu
• 2 - Switzerland
• 2 - Portugal
• 1 - Turkey
• 1 - Romania
• 1 - Netherlands
• 1 - South Korea
• 1 - Jersey
• 1 - Germany
• 1 - Cyprus
• 1 - Wallis and Futuna