Make school libraries and librarians a statutory requirement

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Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 2,837 signatures in total, with signatories from 600 constituencies. That makes it the 4,017th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 84% (average) and a Local Issue Rating of 9% (low).

Signatures by Constituency

• 56 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 29 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 29 - Penrith and The Border
• 27 - Chippenham
• 24 - Torbay
• 23 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 22 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 21 - Pendle
• 19 - Oxford East
• 17 - North Devon
• 17 - Chelmsford
• 17 - East Devon
• 16 - Somerton and Frome
• 16 - Clacton
• 16 - Bracknell
• 16 - The Cotswolds
• 16 - Shipley
• 16 - Gordon
• 15 - Newry and Armagh
• 15 - Reading West
• 14 - North Wiltshire
• 13 - Keighley
• 13 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 13 - Stroud
• 13 - South Cambridgeshire
• 13 - Guildford
• 13 - Bromsgrove
• 12 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 12 - Mole Valley
• 12 - Coventry South
• 12 - North Shropshire
• 11 - Bristol North West
• 11 - Tunbridge Wells
• 11 - North Dorset
• 11 - Yeovil
• 11 - Suffolk Coastal
• 11 - Cheltenham
• 11 - Chipping Barnet
• 11 - Saffron Walden
• 11 - East Renfrewshire
• 11 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 11 - Winchester
• 10 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 10 - West Worcestershire
• 10 - Lewes
• 10 - Richmond Park
• 10 - Tewkesbury
• 10 - Islington North
• 10 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 10 - Wimbledon
• 10 - Worcester
• 10 - South Derbyshire
• 10 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 10 - Surrey Heath
• 10 - Bath
• 9 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 9 - Twickenham
• 9 - South West Surrey
• 9 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 9 - Gainsborough
• 9 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 9 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 9 - Rugby
• 9 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 9 - Norwich North
• 9 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 9 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 9 - Newbury
• 9 - Huntingdon
• 9 - Hove
• 9 - Lewisham East
• 8 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 8 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 8 - Wokingham
• 8 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 8 - St Albans
• 8 - Harborough
• 8 - Maldon
• 8 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 8 - Calder Valley
• 8 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 8 - West Dorset
• 8 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 8 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 8 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 8 - Wantage
• 8 - Ipswich
• 7 - Corby
• 7 - Rushcliffe
• 7 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 7 - South Northamptonshire
• 7 - Reading East
• 7 - Maidenhead
• 7 - Devizes
• 7 - East Surrey
• 7 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 7 - Crawley
• 7 - Monmouth
• 7 - Beckenham
• 7 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 7 - Skipton and Ripon
• 7 - Loughborough
• 7 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 7 - Newark
• 7 - Erewash
• 7 - Thirsk and Malton
• 7 - Wells
• 7 - Wellingborough
• 7 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 7 - North Somerset
• 7 - Watford
• 7 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 7 - Mid Derbyshire
• 7 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 7 - Eltham
• 7 - Nottingham East
• 7 - Streatham
• 7 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 6 - Pudsey
• 6 - North East Hertfordshire
• 6 - North East Somerset
• 6 - Manchester, Gorton
• 6 - Hammersmith
• 6 - Meon Valley
• 6 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 6 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 6 - Gosport
• 6 - Mid Worcestershire
• 6 - Ludlow
• 6 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 6 - Bolton West
• 6 - Tatton
• 6 - South Down
• 6 - Glasgow Central
• 6 - Solihull
• 6 - Falkirk
• 6 - Tynemouth
• 6 - West Lancashire
• 6 - East Lothian
• 6 - Broadland
• 6 - Bristol West
• 6 - Dundee East
• 6 - Banff and Buchan
• 6 - Bexhill and Battle
• 6 - Aberdeen North
• 6 - York Outer
• 6 - Witney
• 6 - Sutton Coldfield
• 6 - Battersea
• 6 - Coventry North West
• 6 - Croydon South
• 6 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 6 - Daventry
• 6 - Sheffield Central
• 6 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 6 - South West Hertfordshire
• 6 - South West Wiltshire
• 6 - Cambridge
• 6 - Croydon Central
• 6 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 5 - York Central
• 5 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 5 - Pontypridd
• 5 - Meriden
• 5 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 5 - Argyll and Bute
• 5 - Ceredigion
• 5 - Llanelli
• 5 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 5 - Glasgow North
• 5 - Cardiff Central
• 5 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 5 - Arfon
• 5 - Clwyd West
• 5 - Macclesfield
• 5 - Edinburgh South
• 5 - South Ribble
• 5 - Mid Norfolk
• 5 - Mid Sussex
• 5 - Wycombe
• 5 - Thurrock
• 5 - Northampton North
• 5 - Northampton South
• 5 - Norwich South
• 5 - Stretford and Urmston
• 5 - Stourbridge
• 5 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 5 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 5 - South Suffolk
• 5 - Putney
• 5 - Salisbury
• 5 - South West Bedfordshire
• 5 - North West Leicestershire
• 5 - Tooting
• 5 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 5 - New Forest East
• 5 - Wirral South
• 5 - Windsor
• 5 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 5 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 5 - Warrington South
• 5 - North East Bedfordshire
• 5 - Warley
• 5 - Aldershot
• 5 - Walthamstow
• 5 - North Swindon
• 5 - Rother Valley
• 5 - Ealing, Southall
• 5 - Bournemouth East
• 5 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 5 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 5 - Arundel and South Downs
• 5 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 5 - Broxtowe
• 5 - Bosworth
• 5 - Aylesbury
• 5 - Copeland
• 5 - Dudley North
• 5 - Croydon North
• 5 - Bolton North East
• 5 - Blaydon
• 5 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 5 - Charnwood
• 5 - Henley
• 5 - Buckingham
• 5 - Bury St Edmunds
• 5 - Harwich and North Essex
• 5 - Burton
• 4 - Glasgow North West
• 4 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 4 - Portsmouth South
• 4 - Newton Abbot
• 4 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 4 - Reigate
• 4 - North Durham
• 4 - Grantham and Stamford
• 4 - Aberdeen South
• 4 - Portsmouth North
• 4 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 4 - Bedford
• 4 - Glasgow South
• 4 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 4 - Edinburgh East
• 4 - Forest of Dean
• 4 - North Norfolk
• 4 - Poole
• 4 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 4 - Eastbourne
• 4 - East Dunbartonshire
• 4 - Garston and Halewood
• 4 - Enfield, Southgate
• 4 - North East Derbyshire
• 4 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 4 - Ealing North
• 4 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 4 - Chichester
• 4 - Cheadle
• 4 - Central Devon
• 4 - Weaver Vale
• 4 - Taunton Deane
• 4 - Carlisle
• 4 - The Wrekin
• 4 - Cannock Chase
• 4 - Warwick and Leamington
• 4 - Warrington North
• 4 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 4 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 4 - Totnes
• 4 - Stafford
• 4 - St Ives
• 4 - Salford and Eccles
• 4 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 4 - Sevenoaks
• 4 - Dartford
• 4 - Darlington
• 4 - Woking
• 4 - South Leicestershire
• 4 - South Norfolk
• 4 - Congleton
• 4 - South West Devon
• 4 - City of Durham
• 4 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 4 - West Ham
• 4 - Vauxhall
• 4 - Gower
• 4 - Milton Keynes North
• 4 - Manchester, Withington
• 4 - Halifax
• 4 - Barnsley East
• 4 - Stirling
• 4 - Neath
• 4 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 4 - Harrow East
• 4 - Harrow West
• 4 - Leeds North West
• 4 - Manchester Central
• 4 - Ashford
• 4 - Horsham
• 4 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 4 - Hexham
• 4 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 4 - Mitcham and Morden
• 4 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 4 - Huddersfield
• 4 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 4 - Ilford North
• 4 - Morley and Outwood
• 4 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 4 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 3 - Westminster North
• 3 - Leeds North East
• 3 - Burnley
• 3 - Clwyd South
• 3 - Colchester
• 3 - Weston-super-Mare
• 3 - Tottenham
• 3 - Selby and Ainsty
• 3 - Wirral West
• 3 - South East Cornwall
• 3 - Sheffield South East
• 3 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 3 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 3 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 3 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 3 - Liverpool, Walton
• 3 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 3 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 3 - Worthing West
• 3 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 3 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 3 - Lincoln
• 3 - Lichfield
• 3 - Southend West
• 3 - West Suffolk
• 3 - Stone
• 3 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 3 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 3 - Chesham and Amersham
• 3 - North Herefordshire
• 3 - Kettering
• 3 - Sunderland Central
• 3 - Kensington
• 3 - Hertsmere
• 3 - Wealden
• 3 - Tamworth
• 3 - Wallasey
• 3 - Waveney
• 3 - Canterbury
• 3 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 3 - Braintree
• 3 - Hyndburn
• 3 - St Austell and Newquay
• 3 - Leeds Central
• 3 - Bury South
• 3 - Chorley
• 3 - West Bromwich West
• 3 - Stevenage
• 3 - Heywood and Middleton
• 3 - Stockton North
• 3 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 3 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 3 - Telford
• 3 - Edinburgh West
• 3 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 3 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 3 - East Ham
• 3 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 3 - Ynys Môn
• 3 - Edinburgh South West
• 3 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 3 - Fareham
• 3 - North East Hampshire
• 3 - Bassetlaw
• 3 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 3 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 3 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 3 - North West Hampshire
• 3 - Barrow and Furness
• 3 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 3 - Beverley and Holderness
• 3 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 3 - Nuneaton
• 3 - Birkenhead
• 3 - Eddisbury
• 3 - Eastleigh
• 3 - Halton
• 3 - Esher and Walton
• 3 - New Forest West
• 3 - Mid Ulster
• 3 - Livingston
• 3 - Barking
• 3 - Foyle
• 3 - Peterborough
• 3 - Dewsbury
• 3 - Hazel Grove
• 3 - Derbyshire Dales
• 3 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 3 - Basingstoke
• 3 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 3 - Rotherham
• 3 - Upper Bann
• 3 - North Cornwall
• 3 - North East Fife
• 3 - Gloucester
• 3 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 3 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 3 - Bishop Auckland
• 3 - Havant
• 2 - Batley and Spen
• 2 - Bournemouth West
• 2 - Ogmore
• 2 - Islwyn
• 2 - Cardiff West
• 2 - Caerphilly
• 2 - Walsall South
• 2 - Bridgend
• 2 - Basildon and Billericay
• 2 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 2 - Bristol South
• 2 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 2 - Inverclyde
• 2 - Blaenau Gwent
• 2 - Wrexham
• 2 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 2 - Newport West
• 2 - Banbury
• 2 - Witham
• 2 - Blackburn
• 2 - Workington
• 2 - Wyre and Preston North
• 2 - Wyre Forest
• 2 - Belfast South
• 2 - Aberavon
• 2 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 2 - Aberconwy
• 2 - Birmingham, Perry Barr
• 2 - Bradford East
• 2 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 2 - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
• 2 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 2 - Brent North
• 2 - Fermanagh and South Tyrone
• 2 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 2 - Brent Central
• 2 - Birmingham, Hodge Hill
• 2 - Barnsley Central
• 2 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 2 - Bradford West
• 2 - Wigan
• 2 - Cardiff North
• 2 - Epping Forest
• 2 - Makerfield
• 2 - Scunthorpe
• 2 - Sedgefield
• 2 - Hayes and Harlington
• 2 - Derby North
• 2 - Gateshead
• 2 - Denton and Reddish
• 2 - Slough
• 2 - Leicester South
• 2 - Louth and Horncastle
• 2 - Leeds West
• 2 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 2 - Dudley South
• 2 - Romford
• 2 - North Warwickshire
• 2 - North Thanet
• 2 - Nottingham South
• 2 - Fylde
• 2 - Orpington
• 2 - Edmonton
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 2 - Gravesham
• 2 - Great Yarmouth
• 2 - Milton Keynes South
• 2 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 2 - Rochdale
• 2 - South Staffordshire
• 2 - South Swindon
• 2 - South Thanet
• 2 - Torridge and West Devon
• 2 - Christchurch
• 2 - Wakefield
• 2 - Camborne and Redruth
• 2 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 2 - Kingswood
• 2 - Jarrow
• 2 - Ilford South
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 2 - Isle of Wight
• 2 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 2 - Spelthorne
• 2 - Hertford and Stortford
• 2 - South West Norfolk
• 2 - Truro and Falmouth
• 2 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 2 - City of Chester
• 2 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 2 - Chesterfield
• 1 - Moray
• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 1 - High Peak
• 1 - Great Grimsby
• 1 - North West Durham
• 1 - Glasgow North East
• 1 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 1 - North Antrim
• 1 - Midlothian
• 1 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 1 - St Helens North
• 1 - Gedling
• 1 - Leicester East
• 1 - Glasgow South West
• 1 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 1 - Belfast North
• 1 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 1 - Middlesbrough
• 1 - Swansea West
• 1 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 1 - Hemel Hempstead
• 1 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 1 - Rhondda
• 1 - Hemsworth
• 1 - Newport East
• 1 - Hendon
• 1 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 1 - Montgomeryshire
• 1 - Luton North
• 1 - Luton South
• 1 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 1 - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
• 1 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 1 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 1 - Leicester West
• 1 - Mansfield
• 1 - West Dunbartonshire
• 1 - Hartlepool
• 1 - Delyn
• 1 - Alyn and Deeside
• 1 - Ashfield
• 1 - Exeter
• 1 - Rutland and Melton
• 1 - Boston and Skegness
• 1 - Coventry North East
• 1 - Bootle
• 1 - Wolverhampton South East
• 1 - Wolverhampton South West
• 1 - Bolton South East
• 1 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 1 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 1 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 1 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 1 - Derby South
• 1 - Sefton Central
• 1 - South Dorset
• 1 - Colne Valley
• 1 - South Shields
• 1 - Wansbeck
• 1 - Bury North
• 1 - Brigg and Goole
• 1 - Thornbury and Yate
• 1 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 1 - Castle Point
• 1 - Sutton and Cheam
• 1 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 1 - Stockton South
• 1 - West Bromwich East
• 1 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 1 - Cleethorpes
• 1 - Blackpool South
• 1 - Belfast East
• 1 - Doncaster Central
• 1 - Easington
• 1 - East Hampshire
• 1 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 1 - Dundee West
• 1 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 1 - East Yorkshire
• 1 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 1 - Nottingham North
• 1 - Enfield North
• 1 - Epsom and Ewell
• 1 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 1 - Beaconsfield
• 1 - Redcar
• 1 - Redditch
• 1 - Central Ayrshire
• 1 - Doncaster North
• 1 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 1 - Blackley and Broughton
• 1 - North Down
• 1 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 1 - West Tyrone
• 1 - Rochford and Southend East
• 1 - Rochester and Strood
• 1 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 1 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 1 - Ribble Valley
• 1 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 1 - Glasgow East

Signatures by Region

• 421 - South East
• 353 - South West
• 329 - London
• 305 - East of England
• 298 - West Midlands
• 276 - Scotland
• 260 - North West
• 190 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 173 - East Midlands
• 96 - Wales
• 63 - North East
• 39 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 2,818 - United Kingdom
• 4 - Ireland
• 2 - New Zealand
• 2 - Guernsey
• 2 - France
• 1 - Spain
• 1 - Canada
• 1 - Austria
• 1 - Isle of Man
• 1 - India
• 1 - Italy
• 1 - Cayman Islands
• 1 - Netherlands
• 1 - United Arab Emirates