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 2,791 signatures in total, with signatories from 613 constituencies. That makes it the 4,159th most popular petition 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 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 15 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 14 - Buckingham
• 12 - Bristol West
• 12 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 12 - Mid Sussex
• 11 - Bracknell
• 11 - Dover
• 11 - Bury South
• 10 - Arundel and South Downs
• 10 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 10 - South Thanet
• 10 - Harwich and North Essex
• 10 - North East Hampshire
• 10 - Wantage
• 10 - Cheltenham
• 10 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 10 - Beaconsfield
• 10 - Blyth Valley
• 10 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 10 - Taunton Deane
• 10 - Rushcliffe
• 10 - Banbury
• 10 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 10 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 10 - Totnes
• 10 - West Lancashire
• 10 - Tewkesbury
• 10 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 9 - Islington North
• 9 - Suffolk Coastal
• 9 - Bury St Edmunds
• 9 - South West Hertfordshire
• 9 - Central Devon
• 9 - Wealden
• 9 - North Devon
• 9 - Nottingham North
• 9 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 9 - Newbury
• 9 - Beverley and Holderness
• 9 - Worthing West
• 9 - Exeter
• 9 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 9 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 9 - Bexhill and Battle
• 8 - North Tyneside
• 8 - South Cambridgeshire
• 8 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 8 - York Outer
• 8 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 8 - Southampton, Test
• 8 - New Forest West
• 8 - Lewes
• 8 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 8 - Ipswich
• 8 - South Norfolk
• 8 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 8 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 8 - Milton Keynes South
• 8 - East Devon
• 8 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 8 - Reading West
• 8 - Swansea West
• 8 - Gower
• 8 - Christchurch
• 8 - East Hampshire
• 8 - North Norfolk
• 7 - Sherwood
• 7 - Colne Valley
• 7 - Beckenham
• 7 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 7 - South West Surrey
• 7 - Devizes
• 7 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 7 - Mid Norfolk
• 7 - Maidenhead
• 7 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 7 - High Peak
• 7 - Weaver Vale
• 7 - Mansfield
• 7 - Mitcham and Morden
• 7 - Huntingdon
• 7 - City of Durham
• 7 - Glasgow North West
• 7 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 7 - Bristol East
• 7 - North East Bedfordshire
• 7 - Eastbourne
• 7 - Corby
• 7 - West Dorset
• 7 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 7 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 7 - Hammersmith
• 7 - Macclesfield
• 7 - Belfast South
• 7 - Halifax
• 7 - Henley
• 7 - Witham
• 7 - Gedling
• 7 - Reigate
• 7 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 7 - Wirral West
• 7 - Wallasey
• 7 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 7 - West Worcestershire
• 7 - North Thanet
• 7 - Warwick and Leamington
• 7 - Stroud
• 7 - Salisbury
• 6 - East Yorkshire
• 6 - Richmond Park
• 6 - Battersea
• 6 - Leeds North East
• 6 - Truro and Falmouth
• 6 - Rochester and Strood
• 6 - York Central
• 6 - South Suffolk
• 6 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 6 - Amber Valley
• 6 - Inverclyde
• 6 - Warrington South
• 6 - North West Durham
• 6 - Sefton Central
• 6 - North East Hertfordshire
• 6 - Aldershot
• 6 - Barrow and Furness
• 6 - Alyn and Deeside
• 6 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 6 - Pendle
• 6 - Witney
• 6 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 6 - Gloucester
• 6 - South Ribble
• 6 - Skipton and Ripon
• 6 - Penrith and The Border
• 6 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 6 - Enfield, Southgate
• 6 - Lewisham East
• 6 - Ashford
• 6 - Milton Keynes North
• 6 - Torridge and West Devon
• 6 - Hazel Grove
• 6 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 6 - Southampton, Itchen
• 6 - Shipley
• 6 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 6 - Twickenham
• 6 - Horsham
• 6 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 6 - Edinburgh South West
• 6 - Hertford and Stortford
• 6 - Edinburgh East
• 6 - Bristol South
• 6 - Stevenage
• 6 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 6 - West Suffolk
• 6 - Hertsmere
• 6 - Chesham and Amersham
• 6 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 6 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 6 - South Swindon
• 6 - Broadland
• 6 - Thirsk and Malton
• 6 - Birkenhead
• 6 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 6 - Hexham
• 6 - Tottenham
• 6 - Heywood and Middleton
• 6 - North Wiltshire
• 6 - Cambridge
• 5 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 5 - Kensington
• 5 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 5 - Wyre and Preston North
• 5 - Tooting
• 5 - Oxford East
• 5 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 5 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 5 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 5 - North Shropshire
• 5 - Eltham
• 5 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 5 - Arfon
• 5 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 5 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 5 - Belfast East
• 5 - Charnwood
• 5 - North Somerset
• 5 - Glasgow South
• 5 - Dewsbury
• 5 - Croydon South
• 5 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 5 - South Northamptonshire
• 5 - Blaenau Gwent
• 5 - St Albans
• 5 - Southend West
• 5 - Guildford
• 5 - North East Somerset
• 5 - South Leicestershire
• 5 - Sheffield South East
• 5 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 5 - Wakefield
• 5 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 5 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 5 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 5 - Tatton
• 5 - Sheffield Central
• 5 - South West Wiltshire
• 5 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 5 - Stockport
• 5 - Sunderland Central
• 5 - Louth and Horncastle
• 5 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 5 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 5 - Chichester
• 5 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 5 - Enfield North
• 5 - Keighley
• 5 - Mid Derbyshire
• 5 - Bath
• 5 - Colchester
• 5 - Wycombe
• 5 - Ludlow
• 5 - Norwich South
• 5 - Rochford and Southend East
• 5 - Salford and Eccles
• 5 - Selby and Ainsty
• 5 - Stirling
• 5 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 5 - Leigh
• 5 - South East Cornwall
• 5 - Stone
• 5 - Bromsgrove
• 5 - Chippenham
• 5 - North Herefordshire
• 5 - Preston
• 5 - Surrey Heath
• 5 - East Surrey
• 5 - Vauxhall
• 5 - Winchester
• 5 - Walthamstow
• 5 - Monmouth
• 5 - Congleton
• 5 - Jarrow
• 5 - East Antrim
• 5 - Ribble Valley
• 5 - Esher and Walton
• 5 - St Austell and Newquay
• 5 - Canterbury
• 5 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 5 - Sutton and Cheam
• 5 - Isle of Wight
• 5 - South West Devon
• 5 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 5 - Wigan
• 5 - East Lothian
• 5 - Wellingborough
• 5 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 5 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 4 - Sevenoaks
• 4 - Yeovil
• 4 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 4 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 4 - Gravesham
• 4 - Mole Valley
• 4 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 4 - Manchester, Withington
• 4 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 4 - Southport
• 4 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 4 - Stourbridge
• 4 - Rhondda
• 4 - Glenrothes
• 4 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 4 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 4 - Barnsley East
• 4 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 4 - Lichfield
• 4 - Romford
• 4 - Dundee East
• 4 - Gainsborough
• 4 - Bootle
• 4 - Meon Valley
• 4 - Belfast North
• 4 - Stretford and Urmston
• 4 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 4 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 4 - North Swindon
• 4 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 4 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 4 - Brigg and Goole
• 4 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 4 - North East Derbyshire
• 4 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 4 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 4 - Bolsover
• 4 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 4 - Workington
• 4 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 4 - Falkirk
• 4 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 4 - North Cornwall
• 4 - Angus
• 4 - Cardiff Central
• 4 - Watford
• 4 - Scunthorpe
• 4 - North Durham
• 4 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 4 - Woking
• 4 - North West Norfolk
• 4 - Cheadle
• 4 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 4 - Tynemouth
• 4 - Torfaen
• 4 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 4 - Doncaster Central
• 4 - Leeds West
• 4 - Epsom and Ewell
• 4 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 4 - Fareham
• 4 - Stockton South
• 4 - Aylesbury
• 4 - Streatham
• 4 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 4 - Nottingham East
• 4 - Torbay
• 4 - Burton
• 4 - Ynys Môn
• 4 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 4 - Hove
• 4 - Caerphilly
• 4 - Wokingham
• 4 - Derby North
• 4 - Cardiff North
• 4 - Edinburgh South
• 4 - Aberdeen South
• 4 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 4 - Wells
• 4 - Daventry
• 4 - Worcester
• 4 - Ealing North
• 4 - Lincoln
• 4 - St Ives
• 4 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 4 - Blackpool South
• 4 - Grantham and Stamford
• 4 - Eastleigh
• 4 - Chorley
• 4 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 4 - Orpington
• 4 - Wirral South
• 4 - Redcar
• 4 - Bolton South East
• 4 - South West Norfolk
• 4 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 4 - Chesterfield
• 3 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 3 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 3 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 3 - Bury North
• 3 - Luton South
• 3 - North Warwickshire
• 3 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 3 - Loughborough
• 3 - Poole
• 3 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 3 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 3 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 3 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 3 - Lagan Valley
• 3 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 3 - Glasgow Central
• 3 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 3 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 3 - Liverpool, Walton
• 3 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 3 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 3 - Wansbeck
• 3 - Denton and Reddish
• 3 - Croydon North
• 3 - Livingston
• 3 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 3 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 3 - Leeds East
• 3 - Norwich North
• 3 - Northampton North
• 3 - Saffron Walden
• 3 - Dartford
• 3 - Ilford North
• 3 - Boston and Skegness
• 3 - Huddersfield
• 3 - Thornbury and Yate
• 3 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 3 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 3 - Strangford
• 3 - Pudsey
• 3 - The Wrekin
• 3 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 3 - Barnsley Central
• 3 - Chipping Barnet
• 3 - Fylde
• 3 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 3 - Cardiff West
• 3 - Bradford East
• 3 - Stockton North
• 3 - Midlothian
• 3 - Newark
• 3 - North West Hampshire
• 3 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 3 - Wimbledon
• 3 - St Helens North
• 3 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 3 - Kingswood
• 3 - Great Yarmouth
• 3 - Bedford
• 3 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 3 - East Dunbartonshire
• 3 - Neath
• 3 - Newton Abbot
• 3 - Reading East
• 3 - Gordon
• 3 - Derbyshire Dales
• 3 - Chelmsford
• 3 - Moray
• 3 - Batley and Spen
• 3 - Hyndburn
• 3 - West Bromwich West
• 3 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 3 - Islwyn
• 3 - Newport East
• 3 - Pontypridd
• 3 - Waveney
• 3 - Broxtowe
• 3 - Eddisbury
• 3 - Darlington
• 3 - Bristol North West
• 3 - Bournemouth East
• 3 - Argyll and Bute
• 3 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 3 - East Renfrewshire
• 3 - Leicester East
• 3 - Clwyd South
• 3 - Calder Valley
• 3 - Cleethorpes
• 3 - Manchester, Gorton
• 3 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 3 - The Cotswolds
• 3 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 3 - Knowsley
• 3 - Derby South
• 3 - Clacton
• 3 - Wolverhampton North East
• 3 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 3 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 3 - Putney
• 3 - Peterborough
• 3 - Telford
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 2 - North Down
• 2 - City of Chester
• 2 - Sedgefield
• 2 - Bolton West
• 2 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 2 - Ceredigion
• 2 - Orkney and Shetland
• 2 - Wrexham
• 2 - Nuneaton
• 2 - Rutland and Melton
• 2 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 2 - Hemsworth
• 2 - Manchester Central
• 2 - South Dorset
• 2 - Gateshead
• 2 - Windsor
• 2 - Bosworth
• 2 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 2 - Glasgow North
• 2 - Newport West
• 2 - Ealing, Southall
• 2 - Halton
• 2 - Basildon and Billericay
• 2 - Middlesbrough
• 2 - Northampton South
• 2 - Harlow
• 2 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 2 - Hendon
• 2 - Braintree
• 2 - Ashfield
• 2 - Crawley
• 2 - Hemel Hempstead
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 2 - Carlisle
• 2 - Blackburn
• 2 - Bradford West
• 2 - Redditch
• 2 - Edinburgh West
• 2 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 2 - Aberconwy
• 2 - New Forest East
• 2 - Glasgow East
• 2 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 2 - Maldon
• 2 - West Bromwich East
• 2 - Warrington North
• 2 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 2 - Llanelli
• 2 - Clwyd West
• 2 - Doncaster North
• 2 - Bolton North East
• 2 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 2 - Morley and Outwood
• 2 - Rochdale
• 2 - Camborne and Redruth
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 2 - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
• 2 - Foyle
• 2 - South West Bedfordshire
• 2 - Wolverhampton South West
• 2 - Croydon Central
• 2 - Dudley South
• 2 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 2 - Blackley and Broughton
• 2 - East Londonderry
• 2 - Banff and Buchan
• 2 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 2 - Harrow West
• 2 - Sutton Coldfield
• 2 - South Down
• 2 - Warley
• 2 - Mid Worcestershire
• 2 - Bournemouth West
• 2 - Copeland
• 2 - West Dunbartonshire
• 2 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 2 - Nottingham South
• 2 - Birmingham, Perry Barr
• 2 - Spelthorne
• 2 - Kettering
• 2 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 2 - Makerfield
• 2 - Rotherham
• 2 - Leeds Central
• 2 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 2 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 2 - Portsmouth North
• 1 - Aberavon
• 1 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 1 - Leicester West
• 1 - Edmonton
• 1 - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
• 1 - Rother Valley
• 1 - Bridgend
• 1 - Westminster North
• 1 - Burnley
• 1 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 1 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 1 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 1 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 1 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 1 - North West Leicestershire
• 1 - Stafford
• 1 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 1 - Leicester South
• 1 - Don Valley
• 1 - Cannock Chase
• 1 - Blaydon
• 1 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 1 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 1 - Hayes and Harlington
• 1 - Havant
• 1 - Portsmouth South
• 1 - Glasgow South West
• 1 - Gosport
• 1 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 1 - North Dorset
• 1 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 1 - Forest of Dean
• 1 - Upper Bann
• 1 - Castle Point
• 1 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 1 - Coventry South
• 1 - North Antrim
• 1 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 1 - Oldham West and Royton
• 1 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 1 - Walsall North
• 1 - Rugby
• 1 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 1 - North East Fife
• 1 - Brent Central
• 1 - Hartlepool
• 1 - Basingstoke
• 1 - Central Ayrshire
• 1 - Wolverhampton South East
• 1 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 1 - South Staffordshire
• 1 - Wyre Forest
• 1 - Tamworth
• 1 - Garston and Halewood
• 1 - Weston-super-Mare
• 1 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 1 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 1 - Dundee West
• 1 - Bassetlaw
• 1 - Leeds North West
• 1 - Coventry North West
• 1 - Meriden
• 1 - Thurrock
• 1 - Ogmore
• 1 - Fermanagh and South Tyrone

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

Signatures by Region

• 517 - South East
• 310 - North West
• 305 - South West
• 299 - London
• 283 - 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

• 2,741 - 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