Make non-payment of child maintenance a criminal offence

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Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 1,467 signatures in total, with signatories from 526 constituencies. That makes it the 5,856th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 77% (average) and a Local Issue Rating of 4% (low).

Signatures by Constituency

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

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

Signatures by Region

• 237 - North West
• 204 - South East
• 170 - East of England
• 136 - South West
• 119 - East Midlands
• 110 - London
• 108 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 107 - Scotland
• 103 - West Midlands
• 58 - Wales
• 38 - North East
• 22 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 1,462 - United Kingdom
• 2 - Canada
• 2 - Germany
• 1 - Spain