Improve statutory paternity leave in the UK to better support families.

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Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 2,669 signatures in total, with signatories from 604 constituencies. That makes it the 4,804th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 83% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 11% (average).

Signatures by Constituency

• 21 - Orkney and Shetland
• 17 - Tewkesbury
• 17 - Colchester
• 15 - Lewisham East
• 14 - Didcot and Wantage
• 14 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 14 - Witney
• 14 - Chelmsford
• 13 - North East Hampshire
• 13 - Oxford East
• 13 - Cheltenham
• 12 - Gloucester
• 12 - Chippenham
• 12 - Reading West and Mid Berkshire
• 12 - Cambridge
• 12 - Sherwood Forest
• 12 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 11 - Swindon South
• 11 - Aldershot
• 11 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 11 - Hornsey and Friern Barnet
• 11 - North Cotswolds
• 11 - Makerfield
• 11 - St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire
• 11 - Witham
• 11 - Belfast South and Mid Down
• 11 - Bristol South
• 11 - Mid Sussex
• 10 - South Derbyshire
• 10 - Chester North and Neston
• 10 - Bicester and Woodstock
• 10 - Stevenage
• 10 - Aberdeen South
• 10 - Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
• 10 - Croydon South
• 10 - Wokingham
• 10 - Blaydon and Consett
• 10 - Winchester
• 10 - Warwick and Leamington
• 10 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 10 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 10 - Lancaster and Wyre
• 10 - Ely and East Cambridgeshire
• 9 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 9 - Wigan
• 9 - Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
• 9 - Rushcliffe
• 9 - Hamble Valley
• 9 - Mid Leicestershire
• 9 - Lewisham North
• 9 - Rochdale
• 9 - Eastleigh
• 9 - South Cambridgeshire
• 9 - Stockport
• 9 - Hitchin
• 9 - Stroud
• 9 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 9 - Beckenham and Penge
• 9 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 8 - Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme
• 8 - Exmouth and Exeter East
• 8 - Lichfield
• 8 - Ashfield
• 8 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 8 - Derby South
• 8 - West Worcestershire
• 8 - Leeds North East
• 8 - Watford
• 8 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 8 - Hertford and Stortford
• 8 - North Bedfordshire
• 8 - Leeds North West
• 8 - Liverpool Wavertree
• 8 - Droitwich and Evesham
• 8 - Chichester
• 8 - Tottenham
• 8 - Worcester
• 8 - Esher and Walton
• 8 - Newbury
• 8 - Hampstead and Highgate
• 8 - Forest of Dean
• 8 - South West Wiltshire
• 8 - Putney
• 8 - Streatham and Croydon North
• 8 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 8 - Tipton and Wednesbury
• 7 - Croydon West
• 7 - Banbury
• 7 - Bracknell
• 7 - Epsom and Ewell
• 7 - Harwich and North Essex
• 7 - Norwich South
• 7 - Maidenhead
• 7 - Clacton
• 7 - Taunton and Wellington
• 7 - Bethnal Green and Stepney
• 7 - North East Hertfordshire
• 7 - Wyre Forest
• 7 - Godalming and Ash
• 7 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 7 - Salisbury
• 7 - East Wiltshire
• 7 - Tatton
• 7 - Nottingham North and Kimberley
• 7 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 7 - Liverpool Garston
• 7 - Belfast East
• 7 - Chester South and Eddisbury
• 7 - Mid Buckinghamshire
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• 7 - Bristol East
• 7 - Stratford and Bow
• 7 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 7 - Hinckley and Bosworth
• 7 - Guildford
• 7 - South West Norfolk
• 6 - Wrexham
• 6 - Clwyd East
• 6 - Islington North
• 6 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 6 - Caerphilly
• 6 - Clwyd North
• 6 - East Kilbride and Strathaven
• 6 - Portsmouth North
• 6 - Dartford
• 6 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 6 - Harpenden and Berkhamsted
• 6 - Battersea
• 6 - York Central
• 6 - Dorking and Horley
• 6 - Havant
• 6 - Walthamstow
• 6 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 6 - Henley and Thame
• 6 - Exeter
• 6 - Milton Keynes Central
• 6 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 6 - Broxtowe
• 6 - Twickenham
• 6 - Swindon North
• 6 - Stockton West
• 6 - Gainsborough
• 6 - Macclesfield
• 6 - Monmouthshire
• 6 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 6 - Cheadle
• 6 - Tynemouth
• 6 - Tooting
• 6 - Bristol North East
• 6 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 6 - Nottingham South
• 6 - Broadland and Fakenham
• 6 - York Outer
• 6 - Luton North
• 6 - Clapham and Brixton Hill
• 6 - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
• 6 - North Dorset
• 6 - Upper Bann
• 6 - Stretford and Urmston
• 6 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 6 - Melksham and Devizes
• 6 - Kettering
• 6 - Pontypridd
• 6 - Bassetlaw
• 6 - West Suffolk
• 6 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 6 - Huntingdon
• 6 - Lewisham West and East Dulwich
• 6 - Solihull West and Shirley
• 6 - Tunbridge Wells
• 6 - Aberdeen North
• 6 - Bedford
• 6 - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
• 5 - Hove and Portslade
• 5 - Leeds South
• 5 - Fylde
• 5 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 5 - Hayes and Harlington
• 5 - Torfaen
• 5 - Lothian East
• 5 - Gedling
• 5 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 5 - Southend East and Rochford
• 5 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 5 - Daventry
• 5 - Boston and Skegness
• 5 - North West Leicestershire
• 5 - Wellingborough and Rushden
• 5 - South Shropshire
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• 5 - Wimbledon
• 5 - Rochester and Strood
• 5 - North West Essex
• 5 - East Ham
• 5 - Leeds East
• 5 - Cardiff West
• 5 - Aylesbury
• 5 - Manchester Withington
• 5 - East Grinstead and Uckfield
• 5 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 5 - Sevenoaks
• 5 - Alyn and Deeside
• 5 - Blackburn
• 5 - Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor
• 5 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West
• 5 - Carlisle
• 5 - High Peak
• 5 - Worsley and Eccles
• 5 - North Durham
• 5 - Woking
• 5 - Horsham
• 5 - Milton Keynes North
• 5 - Knowsley
• 5 - Luton South and South Bedfordshire
• 5 - Gordon and Buchan
• 5 - Reading Central
• 5 - Thornbury and Yate
• 5 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 5 - North Shropshire
• 5 - Blackpool South
• 5 - Ealing North
• 5 - Burton and Uttoxeter
• 5 - South Norfolk
• 5 - Worthing West
• 5 - North West Hampshire
• 5 - Buckingham and Bletchley
• 5 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 4 - Sutton Coldfield
• 4 - Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare
• 4 - Arundel and South Downs
• 4 - Leeds Central and Headingley
• 4 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 4 - Rutland and Stamford
• 4 - Poole
• 4 - Mid and South Pembrokeshire
• 4 - Peterborough
• 4 - Walsall and Bloxwich
• 4 - Richmond and Northallerton
• 4 - Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr
• 4 - Weston-super-Mare
• 4 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 4 - Birmingham Perry Barr
• 4 - South Leicestershire
• 4 - Goole and Pocklington
• 4 - Sheffield Central
• 4 - Leicester South
• 4 - Coventry East
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• 4 - Sutton and Cheam
• 4 - Scunthorpe
• 4 - Queen's Park and Maida Vale
• 4 - St Albans
• 4 - Edmonton and Winchmore Hill
• 4 - Norwich North
• 4 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 4 - Chesterfield
• 4 - Bromsgrove
• 4 - Bridgend
• 4 - Cannock Chase
• 4 - Colne Valley
• 4 - Shrewsbury
• 4 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 4 - Romford
• 4 - Surrey Heath
• 4 - Barking
• 4 - Burnley
• 4 - Sheffield Heeley
• 4 - Belfast West
• 4 - Reigate
• 4 - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham
• 4 - North Somerset
• 4 - Mid Cheshire
• 4 - Edinburgh South
• 4 - Southampton Itchen
• 4 - Birmingham Edgbaston
• 4 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 4 - Basildon and Billericay
• 4 - Nuneaton
• 4 - Portsmouth South
• 4 - St Helens North
• 4 - Epping Forest
• 4 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 4 - Leigh and Atherton
• 4 - North East Derbyshire
• 4 - Manchester Central
• 4 - Hazel Grove
• 4 - Erewash
• 4 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 4 - Wetherby and Easingwold
• 4 - Croydon East
• 4 - Northampton South
• 4 - South Suffolk
• 4 - Ossett and Denby Dale
• 4 - Peckham
• 4 - Nottingham East
• 4 - South Devon
• 4 - Yeovil
• 4 - Gateshead Central and Whickham
• 4 - Birkenhead
• 4 - Coventry North West
• 4 - Fareham and Waterlooville
• 4 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 4 - Salford
• 4 - Southgate and Wood Green
• 4 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 4 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 4 - East Surrey
• 4 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 4 - Orpington
• 4 - Bath
• 4 - Bournemouth East
• 4 - Bromley and Biggin Hill
• 4 - Hemel Hempstead
• 4 - Newark
• 4 - Chesham and Amersham
• 4 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 4 - Eltham and Chislehurst
• 4 - Mansfield
• 4 - Gorton and Denton
• 3 - Congleton
• 3 - Stafford
• 3 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 3 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 3 - Windsor
• 3 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 3 - Ipswich
• 3 - Gower
• 3 - Honiton and Sidmouth
• 3 - North East Somerset and Hanham
• 3 - Barnsley North
• 3 - Vauxhall and Camberwell Green
• 3 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 3 - Beaconsfield
• 3 - Birmingham Ladywood
• 3 - Rugby
• 3 - Maidstone and Malling
• 3 - Wallasey
• 3 - Central Ayrshire
• 3 - Bury North
• 3 - Sussex Weald
• 3 - Halifax
• 3 - Dover and Deal
• 3 - Newton Abbot
• 3 - St Ives
• 3 - Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley
• 3 - Liverpool Riverside
• 3 - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton
• 3 - Great Yarmouth
• 3 - Northampton North
• 3 - Beverley and Holderness
• 3 - Derbyshire Dales
• 3 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 3 - Caerfyrddin
• 3 - Selby
• 3 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 3 - Tiverton and Minehead
• 3 - Doncaster Central
• 3 - Skipton and Ripon
• 3 - Chipping Barnet
• 3 - Bolton North East
• 3 - Wells and Mendip Hills
• 3 - Cardiff North
• 3 - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough
• 3 - Wakefield and Rothwell
• 3 - Enfield North
• 3 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 3 - Earley and Woodley
• 3 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 3 - Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
• 3 - Meriden and Solihull East
• 3 - Bradford West
• 3 - Derby North
• 3 - Bristol North West
• 3 - Brent West
• 3 - Tonbridge
• 3 - East Hampshire
• 3 - Braintree
• 3 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 3 - Sheffield Hallam
• 3 - Christchurch
• 3 - Kensington and Bayswater
• 3 - Spelthorne
• 3 - Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven
• 3 - Coventry South
• 3 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 3 - Hexham
• 3 - Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend
• 3 - Ashford
• 3 - South Cotswolds
• 3 - Rotherham
• 3 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 3 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 3 - Bolsover
• 3 - Redditch
• 3 - Tamworth
• 3 - Thurrock
• 3 - Manchester Rusholme
• 3 - Weald of Kent
• 3 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 3 - Brent East
• 3 - City of Durham
• 3 - Mid Norfolk
• 3 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 3 - West Ham and Beckton
• 3 - South Shields
• 3 - Perth and Kinross-shire
• 3 - Leeds South West and Morley
• 3 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 3 - Castle Point
• 3 - Ealing Southall
• 3 - Central Devon
• 3 - Bathgate and Linlithgow
• 3 - South Antrim
• 2 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 2 - Preston
• 2 - Barnsley South
• 2 - Hammersmith and Chiswick
• 2 - Runcorn and Helsby
• 2 - West Lancashire
• 2 - Redcar
• 2 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 2 - Widnes and Halewood
• 2 - South Dorset
• 2 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 2 - Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch
• 2 - Dunfermline and Dollar
• 2 - Jarrow and Gateshead East
• 2 - Hyndburn
• 2 - St Austell and Newquay
• 2 - Shipley
• 2 - Thirsk and Malton
• 2 - Birmingham Erdington
• 2 - Southampton Test
• 2 - Canterbury
• 2 - Amber Valley
• 2 - East Renfrewshire
• 2 - Melton and Syston
• 2 - Mid Derbyshire
• 2 - Loughborough
• 2 - Crawley
• 2 - Telford
• 2 - Harlow
• 2 - Mid Dunbartonshire
• 2 - Edinburgh South West
• 2 - North Northumberland
• 2 - Birmingham Northfield
• 2 - Bexhill and Battle
• 2 - Bury South
• 2 - New Forest East
• 2 - Stourbridge
• 2 - Glasgow South West
• 2 - Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber
• 2 - Doncaster North
• 2 - Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire
• 2 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 2 - Warrington North
• 2 - Liverpool Walton
• 2 - Ynys Môn
• 2 - Belfast North
• 2 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 2 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 2 - Washington and Gateshead South
• 2 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 2 - Stockton North
• 2 - Bolton West
• 2 - Eastbourne
• 2 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 2 - Wolverhampton South East
• 2 - Mitcham and Morden
• 2 - Truro and Falmouth
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 2 - Wolverhampton West
• 2 - Newport West and Islwyn
• 2 - Hendon
• 2 - Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
• 2 - Heywood and Middleton North
• 2 - Bolton South and Walkden
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 2 - Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy
• 2 - Sunderland Central
• 2 - West Bromwich
• 2 - Farnham and Bordon
• 2 - Gosport
• 2 - Stirling and Strathallan
• 2 - Warrington South
• 2 - Brighton Pavilion
• 2 - Cramlington and Killingworth
• 2 - Bristol Central
• 2 - North East Fife
• 2 - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
• 2 - Hertsmere
• 2 - Corby and East Northamptonshire
• 2 - Falkirk
• 2 - Lagan Valley
• 2 - Waveney Valley
• 2 - Swansea West
• 2 - Brigg and Immingham
• 2 - Maldon
• 2 - Suffolk Coastal
• 2 - Southend West and Leigh
• 2 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 2 - Glastonbury and Somerton
• 2 - South West Devon
• 2 - Livingston
• 2 - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East
• 2 - South Northamptonshire
• 2 - Spen Valley
• 2 - Bournemouth West
• 2 - Torbay
• 2 - Neath and Swansea East
• 2 - Gravesham
• 1 - Ilford South
• 1 - Leicester East
• 1 - Dundee Central
• 1 - Leeds West and Pudsey
• 1 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 1 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 1 - Isle of Wight West
• 1 - Halesowen
• 1 - East Antrim
• 1 - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough
• 1 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 1 - Huddersfield
• 1 - Bootle
• 1 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 1 - Dudley
• 1 - Pendle and Clitheroe
• 1 - Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey
• 1 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 1 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 1 - Llanelli
• 1 - New Forest West
• 1 - Bradford East
• 1 - Torridge and Tavistock
• 1 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 1 - North Devon
• 1 - Birmingham Selly Oak
• 1 - Bridgwater
• 1 - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice
• 1 - Wolverhampton North East
• 1 - North Down
• 1 - Easington
• 1 - Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes
• 1 - Blyth and Ashington
• 1 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 1 - Blackpool North and Fleetwood
• 1 - Dewsbury and Batley
• 1 - Lincoln
• 1 - Bangor Aberconwy
• 1 - Glasgow East
• 1 - North Warwickshire and Bedworth
• 1 - Feltham and Heston
• 1 - Mid Ulster
• 1 - Strangford
• 1 - Alloa and Grangemouth
• 1 - Bishop Auckland
• 1 - Darlington
• 1 - Coatbridge and Bellshill
• 1 - Newport East
• 1 - Rother Valley
• 1 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 1 - Sheffield South East
• 1 - Richmond Park
• 1 - Blackley and Middleton South
• 1 - Glasgow South
• 1 - West Dunbartonshire
• 1 - Camborne and Redruth
• 1 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 1 - Ilford North
• 1 - West Dorset
• 1 - Penrith and Solway
• 1 - Keighley and Ilkley
• 1 - Frome and East Somerset
• 1 - Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West
• 1 - North Norfolk
• 1 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 1 - Hamilton and Clyde Valley
• 1 - East Thanet
• 1 - Wycombe
• 1 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 1 - Birmingham Yardley
• 1 - Grantham and Bourne
• 1 - Harrow West
• 1 - Harrow East
• 1 - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
• 1 - Ceredigion Preseli
• 1 - Glasgow North
• 1 - Lowestoft
• 1 - Broxbourne
• 1 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 1 - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East
• 1 - North Herefordshire
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• 1 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 1 - Normanton and Hemsworth
• 1 - East Londonderry
• 1 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 1 - Leicester West
• 1 - Basingstoke
• 1 - South Ribble
• 1 - Glenrothes and Mid Fife
• 1 - Fermanagh and South Tyrone
• 1 - Edinburgh West

Signatures by Region

• 440 - South East
• 374 - London
• 333 - East of England
• 280 - South West
• 273 - North West
• 213 - East Midlands
• 204 - West Midlands
• 154 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 140 - Scotland
• 95 - Wales
• 82 - North East
• 41 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 2,657 - United Kingdom
• 2 - Netherlands
• 2 - Ireland
• 1 - Japan
• 1 - Jersey
• 1 - United Arab Emirates
• 1 - France
• 1 - Spain
• 1 - Canada
• 1 - Australia
• 1 - Sweden