Make maternity exemption certificates apply from the start of a pregnancy

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Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 1,906 signatures in total, with signatories from 534 constituencies. That makes it the 5,119th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 92% (high) and a Local Issue Rating of -13% (very low).

Signatures by Constituency

• 113 - Shipley
• 51 - Leeds North West
• 48 - Keighley
• 44 - Pudsey
• 30 - Leeds Central
• 29 - Skipton and Ripon
• 26 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 24 - Leeds West
• 23 - Bradford East
• 20 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 20 - Morley and Outwood
• 18 - Leeds North East
• 15 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 14 - Batley and Spen
• 14 - Watford
• 14 - Leeds East
• 12 - Mid Sussex
• 12 - Selby and Ainsty
• 11 - City of Chester
• 10 - Bradford West
• 10 - Isle of Wight
• 9 - North West Hampshire
• 9 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 9 - Huddersfield
• 8 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 8 - Hartlepool
• 8 - Twickenham
• 8 - East Yorkshire
• 7 - Newark
• 7 - Croydon South
• 7 - Bradford South
• 7 - Milton Keynes North
• 7 - Barking
• 7 - Wantage
• 7 - York Central
• 6 - Oxford East
• 6 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 6 - Corby
• 6 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 6 - St Albans
• 6 - Calder Valley
• 6 - Hendon
• 6 - Chorley
• 6 - Halifax
• 6 - Salford and Eccles
• 6 - Slough
• 6 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 6 - Sefton Central
• 6 - Bassetlaw
• 6 - Congleton
• 6 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 6 - Bootle
• 5 - Wirral South
• 5 - Manchester, Withington
• 5 - North East Bedfordshire
• 5 - Basingstoke
• 5 - Rotherham
• 5 - North Swindon
• 5 - Norwich South
• 5 - Hemsworth
• 5 - Lincoln
• 5 - Pendle
• 5 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 5 - South Leicestershire
• 5 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 5 - Saffron Walden
• 5 - Gloucester
• 5 - Stockton South
• 5 - Exeter
• 5 - Tamworth
• 5 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 5 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 5 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 5 - Bristol West
• 5 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 5 - Don Valley
• 5 - Wakefield
• 5 - South West Hertfordshire
• 5 - Bury St Edmunds
• 5 - Meon Valley
• 5 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 5 - Ludlow
• 4 - Tunbridge Wells
• 4 - Wyre Forest
• 4 - Aldershot
• 4 - North Warwickshire
• 4 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 4 - Blaydon
• 4 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 4 - Huntingdon
• 4 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 4 - Bishop Auckland
• 4 - Croydon North
• 4 - Devizes
• 4 - Woking
• 4 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 4 - Barnsley Central
• 4 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 4 - York Outer
• 4 - Rochdale
• 4 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 4 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 4 - Charnwood
• 4 - Doncaster North
• 4 - Stretford and Urmston
• 4 - Tottenham
• 4 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 4 - North Tyneside
• 4 - Harrow West
• 4 - Harrow East
• 4 - Doncaster Central
• 4 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 4 - North Cornwall
• 4 - Esher and Walton
• 4 - Southport
• 4 - Luton South
• 4 - Witham
• 4 - Hertsmere
• 4 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 4 - Milton Keynes South
• 4 - Erewash
• 4 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 4 - Central Devon
• 4 - Bournemouth East
• 4 - Mitcham and Morden
• 4 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 4 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 4 - Rutland and Melton
• 4 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 4 - Torbay
• 4 - Cheltenham
• 4 - Hemel Hempstead
• 4 - Denton and Reddish
• 4 - Basildon and Billericay
• 4 - Birkenhead
• 4 - Newbury
• 4 - Sheffield Central
• 4 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 4 - Liverpool, Walton
• 3 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 3 - Cambridge
• 3 - North Shropshire
• 3 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 3 - Burton
• 3 - Louth and Horncastle
• 3 - Edinburgh East
• 3 - Coventry South
• 3 - Portsmouth South
• 3 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 3 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 3 - Ribble Valley
• 3 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 3 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 3 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 3 - Vauxhall
• 3 - Crawley
• 3 - Nottingham North
• 3 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 3 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 3 - Colne Valley
• 3 - Swansea East
• 3 - Bolton North East
• 3 - Eastleigh
• 3 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 3 - Norwich North
• 3 - Epping Forest
• 3 - Bury South
• 3 - Boston and Skegness
• 3 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 3 - Lichfield
• 3 - Thirsk and Malton
• 3 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 3 - Wirral West
• 3 - Mid Derbyshire
• 3 - Barrow and Furness
• 3 - Edinburgh South West
• 3 - Suffolk Coastal
• 3 - Halton
• 3 - Sedgefield
• 3 - Wallasey
• 3 - Gedling
• 3 - Lewes
• 3 - Torridge and West Devon
• 3 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 3 - Nuneaton
• 3 - Nottingham South
• 3 - South Ribble
• 3 - Islington North
• 3 - Buckingham
• 3 - Rushcliffe
• 3 - Wimbledon
• 3 - Mid Worcestershire
• 3 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 3 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 3 - North Herefordshire
• 3 - Cheadle
• 3 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 3 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 3 - Hazel Grove
• 3 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 3 - Reading West
• 3 - Cleethorpes
• 3 - Middlesbrough
• 3 - Warwick and Leamington
• 3 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 3 - Feltham and Heston
• 3 - South Northamptonshire
• 3 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 3 - Bristol South
• 3 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 3 - Hove
• 3 - Stevenage
• 3 - Tatton
• 3 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 3 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 3 - Yeovil
• 3 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 3 - Romford
• 3 - Scunthorpe
• 3 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 3 - Enfield North
• 3 - Dewsbury
• 3 - Macclesfield
• 3 - Colchester
• 3 - Darlington
• 3 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 3 - Maidenhead
• 3 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 3 - Tooting
• 3 - Tewkesbury
• 3 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 3 - Warley
• 3 - Beaconsfield
• 3 - Redcar
• 3 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 3 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 3 - Bromsgrove
• 3 - Brent North
• 3 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 3 - New Forest East
• 3 - North East Hampshire
• 2 - South Suffolk
• 2 - Glasgow East
• 2 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 2 - Preston
• 2 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 2 - Enfield, Southgate
• 2 - Wigan
• 2 - Derby North
• 2 - Ogmore
• 2 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 2 - Bournemouth West
• 2 - Harlow
• 2 - Reigate
• 2 - Truro and Falmouth
• 2 - Central Ayrshire
• 2 - Sunderland Central
• 2 - Wellingborough
• 2 - Edinburgh West
• 2 - Kensington
• 2 - Glasgow North
• 2 - Knowsley
• 2 - Bristol North West
• 2 - Nottingham East
• 2 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 2 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 2 - Dartford
• 2 - Warrington South
• 2 - East Devon
• 2 - Derbyshire Dales
• 2 - Ealing, Southall
• 2 - Grantham and Stamford
• 2 - Dudley North
• 2 - Sevenoaks
• 2 - Falkirk
• 2 - North East Hertfordshire
• 2 - South Cambridgeshire
• 2 - South Norfolk
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 2 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 2 - Spelthorne
• 2 - West Lancashire
• 2 - North Durham
• 2 - East Lothian
• 2 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 2 - Leigh
• 2 - Banbury
• 2 - Ilford South
• 2 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 2 - West Worcestershire
• 2 - Broxtowe
• 2 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 2 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 2 - Camborne and Redruth
• 2 - Beckenham
• 2 - Windsor
• 2 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 2 - Newport East
• 2 - Blackley and Broughton
• 2 - Streatham
• 2 - Eastbourne
• 2 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 2 - Walthamstow
• 2 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 2 - Portsmouth North
• 2 - Hayes and Harlington
• 2 - Horsham
• 2 - South Derbyshire
• 2 - Bracknell
• 2 - Epsom and Ewell
• 2 - South Antrim
• 2 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 2 - Chelmsford
• 2 - Hyndburn
• 2 - Great Yarmouth
• 2 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 2 - West Ham
• 2 - East Hampshire
• 2 - Blackpool South
• 2 - Swansea West
• 2 - Broadland
• 2 - Bolton West
• 2 - South West Surrey
• 2 - Stockton North
• 2 - Barnsley East
• 2 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 2 - Kingswood
• 2 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 2 - Weaver Vale
• 2 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 2 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 2 - Stroud
• 2 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 2 - Havant
• 2 - Harwich and North Essex
• 2 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 2 - Gosport
• 2 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 2 - Croydon Central
• 2 - Aylesbury
• 2 - Caerphilly
• 2 - Stockport
• 2 - Manchester Central
• 2 - Telford
• 2 - Derby South
• 2 - City of Durham
• 2 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 2 - Bristol East
• 2 - The Wrekin
• 2 - Rochester and Strood
• 2 - Bridgend
• 2 - Coventry North East
• 2 - Southampton, Itchen
• 2 - Garston and Halewood
• 2 - Salisbury
• 2 - Wyre and Preston North
• 2 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 2 - Stourbridge
• 2 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 2 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 2 - Mole Valley
• 2 - Walsall South
• 2 - Midlothian
• 2 - Wealden
• 2 - Alyn and Deeside
• 2 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 2 - Makerfield
• 2 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 2 - South West Wiltshire
• 2 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 2 - North West Norfolk
• 2 - Chippenham
• 2 - North Somerset
• 2 - Belfast South
• 2 - Redditch
• 2 - Newport West
• 2 - Ashfield
• 1 - Edmonton
• 1 - Sherwood
• 1 - Weston-super-Mare
• 1 - Rugby
• 1 - Ceredigion
• 1 - South Thanet
• 1 - Daventry
• 1 - Reading East
• 1 - North East Somerset
• 1 - Amber Valley
• 1 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 1 - Carlisle
• 1 - North Devon
• 1 - West Suffolk
• 1 - North Wiltshire
• 1 - Leicester South
• 1 - Brent Central
• 1 - Hammersmith
• 1 - Birmingham, Hodge Hill
• 1 - Hastings and Rye
• 1 - Cynon Valley
• 1 - Ynys Môn
• 1 - Fareham
• 1 - Ashford
• 1 - Penrith and The Border
• 1 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 1 - Gateshead
• 1 - Edinburgh South
• 1 - St Helens North
• 1 - Stone
• 1 - Bedford
• 1 - Kettering
• 1 - East Surrey
• 1 - Bolton South East
• 1 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 1 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 1 - Dover
• 1 - Henley
• 1 - Northampton North
• 1 - Blackburn
• 1 - East Londonderry
• 1 - South Dorset
• 1 - Great Grimsby
• 1 - Aberdeen South
• 1 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 1 - Easington
• 1 - Lewisham East
• 1 - Dundee East
• 1 - Cardiff West
• 1 - Bolsover
• 1 - Southend West
• 1 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 1 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 1 - North East Fife
• 1 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 1 - Rochford and Southend East
• 1 - The Cotswolds
• 1 - Mid Ulster
• 1 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 1 - West Dorset
• 1 - Arfon
• 1 - Wells
• 1 - Somerton and Frome
• 1 - Hertford and Stortford
• 1 - Clacton
• 1 - Islwyn
• 1 - Sheffield South East
• 1 - Chichester
• 1 - Beverley and Holderness
• 1 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 1 - Cardiff North
• 1 - Bury North
• 1 - Sutton Coldfield
• 1 - Winchester
• 1 - Worcester
• 1 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 1 - Oldham West and Royton
• 1 - Westminster North
• 1 - Thornbury and Yate
• 1 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 1 - Solihull
• 1 - Burnley
• 1 - Christchurch
• 1 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 1 - Worthing West
• 1 - Tynemouth
• 1 - Surrey Heath
• 1 - Wycombe
• 1 - Orpington
• 1 - Coventry North West
• 1 - Luton North
• 1 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 1 - Manchester, Gorton
• 1 - Meriden
• 1 - St Ives
• 1 - Dundee West
• 1 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 1 - Witney
• 1 - Lagan Valley
• 1 - North East Derbyshire
• 1 - Clwyd West
• 1 - Rhondda
• 1 - Wolverhampton North East
• 1 - Castle Point
• 1 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 1 - Glasgow North East
• 1 - West Bromwich East
• 1 - Bexhill and Battle
• 1 - Bosworth
• 1 - Dudley South
• 1 - Glasgow South
• 1 - Chipping Barnet
• 1 - Taunton Deane
• 1 - Heywood and Middleton
• 1 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 1 - Gravesham
• 1 - Walsall North
• 1 - Wolverhampton South West
• 1 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 1 - Argyll and Bute
• 1 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 1 - Gordon
• 1 - South East Cornwall
• 1 - Waveney
• 1 - Cardiff Central
• 1 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 1 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 1 - Orkney and Shetland
• 1 - Forest of Dean
• 1 - Maldon
• 1 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 1 - Ealing North
• 1 - North Down
• 1 - Harborough
• 1 - Newton Abbot
• 1 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 1 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 1 - Blyth Valley
• 1 - Ilford North
• 1 - Arundel and South Downs
• 1 - Eddisbury
• 1 - Clwyd South
• 1 - Workington
• 1 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 1 - Stafford
• 1 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 1 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 1 - South West Norfolk
• 1 - Livingston
• 1 - East Ham
• 1 - Loughborough
• 1 - Rother Valley
• 1 - High Peak
• 1 - North Norfolk
• 1 - Glasgow Central
• 1 - Mansfield
• 1 - Jarrow

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

Signatures by Region

• 638 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 213 - North West
• 207 - South East
• 183 - London
• 142 - East of England
• 128 - West Midlands
• 110 - South West
• 99 - East Midlands
• 62 - Scotland
• 58 - North East
• 33 - Wales
• 8 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 1,897 - United Kingdom
• 3 - France
• 2 - Thailand
• 1 - United Arab Emirates
• 1 - Netherlands
• 1 - Sweden
• 1 - United States