Submitted by Daithi Broad on Wednesday 31st January 2024
Published on Monday 26th February 2024
Current status: Open
Open until: Monday 26th August 2024
Current Signatures: 13
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Don't ask people to disclose previous names after 5 years
We want the Government not to ask people to disclose a previous name where it can be demonstrated a new name has been the sole name used for 5 years.
Remove all requests for people to provide any previous name except where a person is undergoing a DBS or fraud check.
After estrangement from a traumatic family background. I changed my name in 2018, relocated to a different part of the country where I've never used my birth name. I have had legal documents repeatedly issued under my legal name. Transgender people likewise can find being required to disclose and refer to a previous name distressing.
We believe there is little justification in requiring someone to disclose a name that people no longer have any connection to, except in cases of crime prevention or fraud avoidance.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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