Make it unlawful for Government business to be conducted by private message apps

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Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 2,787 signatures in total, with signatories from 613 constituencies. That makes it the 122nd most popular open petition, and the 4,074th most popular of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 92% (high) and a Local Issue Rating of 3% (low).

Signatures by Constituency

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

Signatures by Region

• 517 - South East
• 308 - North West
• 305 - South West
• 298 - London
• 282 - East of England
• 213 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 200 - Scotland
• 175 - East Midlands
• 153 - West Midlands
• 125 - Wales
• 108 - North East
• 38 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 2,737 - United Kingdom
• 11 - France
• 5 - Germany
• 3 - Ireland
• 3 - Netherlands
• 3 - Finland
• 2 - Italy
• 2 - Isle of Man
• 2 - Malta
• 2 - Spain
• 2 - Switzerland
• 1 - Poland
• 1 - Portugal
• 1 - Romania
• 1 - Sweden
• 1 - Singapore
• 1 - Japan
• 1 - Jersey
• 1 - United Arab Emirates
• 1 - Gibraltar
• 1 - Denmark
• 1 - Cyprus
• 1 - Canada
• 1 - Belgium
• 1 - Australia
• 1 - Thailand