Extend UK statutory paternity leave to six weeks

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Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 1,353 signatures in total, with signatories from 471 constituencies. That makes it the 6,082nd most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 70% (average) and a Local Issue Rating of 3% (low).

Signatures by Constituency

• 30 - Aldershot
• 19 - Denton and Reddish
• 16 - York Outer
• 14 - Barrow and Furness
• 12 - North Swindon
• 10 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 10 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 9 - Liverpool, Walton
• 9 - Witham
• 9 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 8 - Dundee East
• 8 - York Central
• 8 - Chelmsford
• 8 - Colchester
• 8 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 8 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 8 - Maldon
• 7 - Garston and Halewood
• 7 - South Swindon
• 7 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 7 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 7 - Bootle
• 7 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 7 - Wells
• 7 - Worcester
• 7 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 6 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 6 - Dundee West
• 6 - Reading West
• 6 - Mole Valley
• 6 - Basingstoke
• 6 - Glasgow Central
• 6 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 6 - Bolsover
• 6 - Witney
• 6 - Ashfield
• 6 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 6 - Braintree
• 6 - Mid Norfolk
• 6 - South West Wiltshire
• 6 - Selby and Ainsty
• 6 - Surrey Heath
• 6 - Taunton Deane
• 6 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 6 - Enfield North
• 6 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 5 - Newbury
• 5 - Henley
• 5 - North Wiltshire
• 5 - Bristol West
• 5 - Dudley North
• 5 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 5 - Grantham and Stamford
• 5 - Hemsworth
• 5 - Stirling
• 5 - Rugby
• 5 - Isle of Wight
• 5 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 5 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 5 - Reading East
• 5 - Coventry North West
• 5 - Huntingdon
• 5 - Ipswich
• 5 - Morley and Outwood
• 5 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 5 - North West Norfolk
• 5 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 5 - Winchester
• 5 - Aberconwy
• 5 - Weaver Vale
• 4 - Eddisbury
• 4 - East Devon
• 4 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 4 - Putney
• 4 - Don Valley
• 4 - Basildon and Billericay
• 4 - Falkirk
• 4 - South Northamptonshire
• 4 - Angus
• 4 - Chipping Barnet
• 4 - Richmond Park
• 4 - Erewash
• 4 - Esher and Walton
• 4 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 4 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 4 - Bridgend
• 4 - Knowsley
• 4 - Stevenage
• 4 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 4 - North Dorset
• 4 - Aylesbury
• 4 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 4 - St Austell and Newquay
• 4 - Poole
• 4 - Somerton and Frome
• 4 - Windsor
• 4 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 4 - Cambridge
• 4 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 4 - Saffron Walden
• 4 - Broxbourne
• 4 - Bury St Edmunds
• 4 - South Cambridgeshire
• 4 - Blyth Valley
• 3 - Bolton West
• 3 - Salford and Eccles
• 3 - Fylde
• 3 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 3 - Vale of Clwyd
• 3 - Tooting
• 3 - Ceredigion
• 3 - North East Bedfordshire
• 3 - Newport East
• 3 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 3 - North East Derbyshire
• 3 - North East Somerset
• 3 - West Dorset
• 3 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 3 - North West Hampshire
• 3 - North Down
• 3 - Brigg and Goole
• 3 - Gloucester
• 3 - Ashford
• 3 - High Peak
• 3 - Manchester Central
• 3 - Mid Sussex
• 3 - Wokingham
• 3 - Woking
• 3 - Lincoln
• 3 - Streatham
• 3 - Stretford and Urmston
• 3 - Louth and Horncastle
• 3 - Maidenhead
• 3 - Mansfield
• 3 - Bury North
• 3 - Stockport
• 3 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 3 - Horsham
• 3 - Bournemouth West
• 3 - Stafford
• 3 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 3 - New Forest East
• 3 - Thirsk and Malton
• 3 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 3 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 3 - Wirral West
• 3 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 3 - Ribble Valley
• 3 - Eastleigh
• 3 - Gordon
• 3 - Pudsey
• 3 - East Yorkshire
• 3 - Southampton, Test
• 3 - Cleethorpes
• 3 - East Surrey
• 3 - Bury South
• 3 - Doncaster Central
• 3 - Castle Point
• 3 - Derby South
• 3 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 3 - Bath
• 3 - Telford
• 3 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 3 - Beverley and Holderness
• 3 - Chesterfield
• 3 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 3 - Chichester
• 3 - Hazel Grove
• 3 - South West Norfolk
• 3 - Chippenham
• 2 - St Albans
• 2 - Rochford and Southend East
• 2 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 2 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 2 - South Suffolk
• 2 - Rutland and Melton
• 2 - Wigan
• 2 - Stockton South
• 2 - Mid Worcestershire
• 2 - Wimbledon
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 2 - Northampton North
• 2 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 2 - Stourbridge
• 2 - Walsall North
• 2 - South East Cornwall
• 2 - Romford
• 2 - Rother Valley
• 2 - Solihull
• 2 - Stone
• 2 - Reigate
• 2 - St Helens North
• 2 - South Dorset
• 2 - Shipley
• 2 - Preston
• 2 - Tewkesbury
• 2 - Portsmouth North
• 2 - Northampton South
• 2 - Sevenoaks
• 2 - Norwich South
• 2 - Sheffield South East
• 2 - Nuneaton
• 2 - Barking
• 2 - Waveney
• 2 - Peterborough
• 2 - North Thanet
• 2 - West Worcestershire
• 2 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 2 - St Ives
• 2 - South West Bedfordshire
• 2 - North Devon
• 2 - South West Devon
• 2 - South West Hertfordshire
• 2 - Walthamstow
• 2 - Salisbury
• 2 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 2 - Wakefield
• 2 - North East Hampshire
• 2 - West Bromwich West
• 2 - Oxford East
• 2 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 2 - Devizes
• 2 - Edinburgh East
• 2 - Amber Valley
• 2 - Eastbourne
• 2 - Torfaen
• 2 - Epping Forest
• 2 - Exeter
• 2 - Fareham
• 2 - Feltham and Heston
• 2 - Wantage
• 2 - Broadland
• 2 - South West Surrey
• 2 - Banff and Buchan
• 2 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 2 - Daventry
• 2 - Manchester, Withington
• 2 - Gedling
• 2 - Cardiff Central
• 2 - Bassetlaw
• 2 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 2 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 2 - Bristol South
• 2 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 2 - Bexhill and Battle
• 2 - Carlisle
• 2 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 2 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 2 - Cheadle
• 2 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 2 - Christchurch
• 2 - Clacton
• 2 - Colne Valley
• 2 - Bradford East
• 2 - Glasgow South
• 2 - Bedford
• 2 - Beaconsfield
• 2 - Blackley and Broughton
• 2 - Great Grimsby
• 2 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 2 - Heywood and Middleton
• 2 - Corby
• 2 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 2 - Glasgow South West
• 2 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 2 - Huddersfield
• 2 - Lewes
• 2 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 2 - Kettering
• 2 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 2 - Loughborough
• 2 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 2 - Workington
• 2 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 2 - Belfast East
• 2 - Leeds East
• 2 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 2 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 2 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 2 - Leeds West
• 2 - Lagan Valley
• 2 - Harrow East
• 2 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 2 - Pontypridd
• 2 - Belfast South
• 2 - Hastings and Rye
• 2 - Makerfield
• 1 - Swansea East
• 1 - Orkney and Shetland
• 1 - Monmouth
• 1 - West Dunbartonshire
• 1 - Gower
• 1 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 1 - Ynys Môn
• 1 - Twickenham
• 1 - Na h-Eileanan an Iar
• 1 - Swansea West
• 1 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 1 - Clwyd West
• 1 - Neath
• 1 - Cynon Valley
• 1 - Blaenau Gwent
• 1 - Cardiff North
• 1 - Aberavon
• 1 - Cardiff West
• 1 - Caerphilly
• 1 - Sutton and Cheam
• 1 - Central Devon
• 1 - Newport West
• 1 - Tottenham
• 1 - North Antrim
• 1 - South Antrim
• 1 - South Down
• 1 - Strangford
• 1 - Wellingborough
• 1 - Upper Bann
• 1 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 1 - The Cotswolds
• 1 - Mid Ulster
• 1 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 1 - Wolverhampton South West
• 1 - Weston-super-Mare
• 1 - Wyre and Preston North
• 1 - West Suffolk
• 1 - Yeovil
• 1 - West Lancashire
• 1 - West Ham
• 1 - Fermanagh and South Tyrone
• 1 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 1 - Warwick and Leamington
• 1 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 1 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 1 - Wallasey
• 1 - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
• 1 - Livingston
• 1 - Midlothian
• 1 - Vauxhall
• 1 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 1 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 1 - Wansbeck
• 1 - Warrington South
• 1 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 1 - East Lothian
• 1 - Edinburgh South
• 1 - Warley
• 1 - Edinburgh South West
• 1 - Edinburgh West
• 1 - Wyre Forest
• 1 - Wolverhampton North East
• 1 - Sunderland Central
• 1 - Gainsborough
• 1 - Coventry North East
• 1 - Congleton
• 1 - City of Durham
• 1 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 1 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 1 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 1 - Calder Valley
• 1 - Burton
• 1 - Bristol North West
• 1 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 1 - Bradford South
• 1 - Bracknell
• 1 - Bournemouth East
• 1 - Crawley
• 1 - Croydon South
• 1 - Forest of Dean
• 1 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 1 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 1 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 1 - Eltham
• 1 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 1 - Easington
• 1 - Ealing, Southall
• 1 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 1 - Dover
• 1 - Dewsbury
• 1 - Derbyshire Dales
• 1 - Brent North
• 1 - Bosworth
• 1 - Bolton South East
• 1 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 1 - Moray
• 1 - Buckingham
• 1 - Tatton
• 1 - Hertsmere
• 1 - Croydon Central
• 1 - Hammersmith
• 1 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 1 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 1 - Wycombe
• 1 - South Leicestershire
• 1 - Redditch
• 1 - Torbay
• 1 - Nottingham East
• 1 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 1 - Blaydon
• 1 - Bishop Auckland
• 1 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 1 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 1 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 1 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 1 - Barnsley East
• 1 - Barnsley Central
• 1 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 1 - Nottingham South
• 1 - Sedgefield
• 1 - Rotherham
• 1 - Ludlow
• 1 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 1 - Gosport
• 1 - Suffolk Coastal
• 1 - Redcar
• 1 - Portsmouth South
• 1 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 1 - Pendle
• 1 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 1 - Nottingham North
• 1 - Norwich North
• 1 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 1 - North Warwickshire
• 1 - North Shropshire
• 1 - North Norfolk
• 1 - North Herefordshire
• 1 - North East Hertfordshire
• 1 - Rochdale
• 1 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 1 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 1 - Southport
• 1 - Southend West
• 1 - South Norfolk
• 1 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 1 - South Derbyshire
• 1 - Skipton and Ripon
• 1 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 1 - Sherwood
• 1 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 1 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 1 - Scunthorpe
• 1 - Rushcliffe
• 1 - North Durham
• 1 - Newton Abbot
• 1 - Hyndburn
• 1 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 1 - Hexham
• 1 - Hendon
• 1 - Hemel Hempstead
• 1 - Harwich and North Essex
• 1 - Hartlepool
• 1 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 1 - Harlow
• 1 - Harborough
• 1 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 1 - Guildford
• 1 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 1 - Ilford North
• 1 - Kingswood
• 1 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 1 - Mitcham and Morden
• 1 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 1 - Meon Valley
• 1 - Manchester, Gorton
• 1 - Lichfield
• 1 - Lewisham East
• 1 - Leigh
• 1 - Leicester West
• 1 - Leicester South
• 1 - Leeds North East
• 1 - Leeds Central
• 1 - Gravesham

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

Signatures by Region

• 197 - North West
• 193 - South East
• 159 - East of England
• 135 - South West
• 130 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 93 - Scotland
• 86 - London
• 84 - West Midlands
• 83 - East Midlands
• 50 - Wales
• 23 - North East
• 16 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 1,352 - United Kingdom
• 1 - Germany