Big Hitters

The big hitters of the petition world. These are the open petitions with the most signatures in the past week. That's the sort of thing that social media would call "trending", but we're not that pretentious.

• Bad owners are to blame not the breed - don't ban the XL bully
  Opened on Wednesday 13th September 2023
  563,769 signatures in the past week, 564,129 in total

• Reform the Grocery Supply Code of Practice to better protect farmers
  Opened on Thursday 14th September 2023
  23,788 signatures in the past week, 24,245 in total

• Hold a referendum on ending devolution in Wales
  Opened on Tuesday 19th September 2023
  13,075 signatures in the past week, 13,472 in total

• Pause the Energy Bill and hold a public referendum before proceeding
  Opened on Thursday 14th September 2023
  9,350 signatures in the past week, 9,383 in total

• Require employers to offer career breaks for parents with a seriously ill child
  Opened on Friday 2nd June 2023
  8,796 signatures in the past week, 65,131 in total

• Make the State Pension equal to Minimum Wage (40hr/wk 23+) to all from age 60
  Opened on Wednesday 5th July 2023
  7,752 signatures in the past week, 8,842 in total

• Find time to take the Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill through the House of Commons
  Opened on Wednesday 14th June 2023
  6,997 signatures in the past week, 7,969 in total

• Make XL Bully a banned dog breed in the Dangerous Dogs Act
  Opened on Friday 25th August 2023
  6,979 signatures in the past week, 26,095 in total

• Introduce national restrictions on pavement parking.
  Opened on Tuesday 5th September 2023
  5,873 signatures in the past week, 6,035 in total

• Deport all foreign and dual nationals imprisoned for a year or more
  Opened on Thursday 14th September 2023
  5,303 signatures in the past week, 5,395 in total

• Fund routine breast cancer screening from the age of 25
  Opened on Monday 18th September 2023
  5,163 signatures in the past week, 5,283 in total

• Provide dairy-free alternatives as part of the national milk scheme for under 5s
  Opened on Wednesday 14th June 2023
  3,833 signatures in the past week, 11,669 in total

• Hold a referendum on the 2050 Net Zero target
  Opened on Wednesday 5th April 2023
  3,769 signatures in the past week, 7,416 in total

• Increase Carer's Allowance to 35 hours a week at the minimum wage
  Opened on Wednesday 28th June 2023
  3,760 signatures in the past week, 3,837 in total

• Introduce mandatory neutering of pet cats
  Opened on Tuesday 5th September 2023
  3,628 signatures in the past week, 15,280 in total

• Fund free dental care for all
  Opened on Tuesday 19th September 2023
  3,482 signatures in the past week, 3,594 in total

• Provide Ukrainian refugees with settled status to enable a stable life in the UK
  Opened on Tuesday 5th September 2023
  2,744 signatures in the past week, 20,532 in total

• Make pet abduction a specific criminal offence
  Opened on Wednesday 28th June 2023
  2,628 signatures in the past week, 33,806 in total

• Call an immediate general election
  Opened on Friday 4th August 2023
  2,397 signatures in the past week, 3,262 in total

• Require jurors in rape trials to complete mandatory training on rape myths
  Opened on Thursday 27th July 2023
  2,291 signatures in the past week, 2,831 in total

• Allow parents to take their children out of school for up to 20 days a year
  Opened on Wednesday 13th September 2023
  1,713 signatures in the past week, 1,848 in total

• Record and publish numbers of companion animals euthanised in England
  Opened on Thursday 22nd June 2023
  1,429 signatures in the past week, 7,516 in total

• Remove breed specific legislation. Consider alternative methods for dog control.
  Opened on Thursday 1st June 2023
  1,412 signatures in the past week, 5,352 in total

• Recognize period underwear as a menstrual product and remove the 20%VAT on them
  Opened on Tuesday 4th April 2023
  1,029 signatures in the past week, 34,626 in total

• Require train operators keep ticket offices and platform staff at train stations
  Opened on Tuesday 18th April 2023
  894 signatures in the past week, 104,361 in total

• Add hedgehogs to Schedule 5 Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
  Opened on Thursday 31st August 2023
  890 signatures in the past week, 3,164 in total

• Fund the drug Baricitinib on the NHS to treat severe alopecia areata
  Opened on Wednesday 31st May 2023
  864 signatures in the past week, 5,625 in total

• Require education staff to be trained on learning disabilities and autism
  Opened on Tuesday 6th June 2023
  858 signatures in the past week, 58,153 in total

• Introduce Mandatory Licensing of Low Power Weapons/Air Guns in England & Wales.
  Opened on Tuesday 21st March 2023
  812 signatures in the past week, 8,399 in total

• Make foreign NHS nurses and their family eligible for citizenship after 5 years
  Opened on Friday 28th April 2023
  768 signatures in the past week, 1,105 in total

• Exclude telecommunication installations from permitted development legislation
  Opened on Thursday 6th April 2023
  762 signatures in the past week, 4,678 in total

• Ensure all GCSE students are issued equation sheets
  Opened on Friday 28th April 2023
  754 signatures in the past week, 14,707 in total

• Introduce statutory licensing and regulation of builders
  Opened on Tuesday 11th April 2023
  750 signatures in the past week, 10,181 in total

• Create a pet task force to seek to reduce number of pets being put to sleep
  Opened on Monday 21st August 2023
  741 signatures in the past week, 4,584 in total

• Make a UK law requiring all establishments to accept cash
  Opened on Monday 17th April 2023
  723 signatures in the past week, 19,797 in total

• Reduce the VAT rate for salons to 9% and lower the VAT threshold to Nil
  Opened on Monday 11th September 2023
  699 signatures in the past week, 1,484 in total

• Increase the state pension to equal 35 hours a week at the National Living Wage
  Opened on Thursday 6th April 2023
  696 signatures in the past week, 37,259 in total

• Do not allow people to have acquired gender listed as sex on Government ID
  Opened on Wednesday 26th July 2023
  677 signatures in the past week, 4,287 in total

• Give more funding for thyroid research and patients after price hike
  Opened on Monday 4th September 2023
  671 signatures in the past week, 6,364 in total

• Create independent inspection scheme for dogs held under the Dangerous Dogs Act
  Opened on Thursday 14th September 2023
  612 signatures in the past week, 616 in total

• Do not increase visa fees and the Immigration Health Surcharge
  Opened on Wednesday 19th July 2023
  599 signatures in the past week, 18,519 in total

• Give 500,000 UK overseas State Pensioners with frozen pensions parity
  Opened on Thursday 24th August 2023
  562 signatures in the past week, 2,268 in total

• Require police carry tranquilizer guns and ban use of police firearms on animals
  Opened on Thursday 15th June 2023
  551 signatures in the past week, 8,106 in total

• Reverse the requirement for parents on UC to be available to work for 30 hours
  Opened on Monday 24th April 2023
  542 signatures in the past week, 4,971 in total

• Introduce new laws to force offenders to be present in court for sentencing
  Opened on Friday 14th April 2023
  530 signatures in the past week, 39,339 in total

• Create income replacement scheme for crew affected by writers and actors strikes
  Opened on Tuesday 22nd August 2023
  499 signatures in the past week, 30,112 in total

• Reintroduce the Energy Bills Support Scheme for winter 2023/24
  Opened on Tuesday 9th May 2023
  484 signatures in the past week, 3,758 in total

• Create an asylum scheme for Christians from Pakistan
  Opened on Tuesday 12th September 2023
  463 signatures in the past week, 1,294 in total

• Introduce nationwide statutory post-adoption support and funding
  Opened on Tuesday 19th September 2023
  435 signatures in the past week, 438 in total

• Create a new regulatory body to hold NHS managers accountable
  Opened on Tuesday 22nd August 2023
  431 signatures in the past week, 24,819 in total

• Require rear facing car seats for children under 18kg, 105cm tall or 4 years
  Opened on Friday 7th July 2023
  419 signatures in the past week, 4,031 in total

• Provide dedicated funding for diagnosis/treatment of hypermobile EDS and HSD
  Opened on Tuesday 2nd May 2023
  364 signatures in the past week, 21,375 in total

• Remove local authority powers to introduce LTNs, CAZs, LEZs and ULEZs
  Opened on Thursday 4th May 2023
  344 signatures in the past week, 739 in total

• Add specific provision for women to regulations on PPE in the workplace
  Opened on Wednesday 13th September 2023
  320 signatures in the past week, 396 in total

• Reduce the national speed limit for rural roads to 30mph
  Opened on Tuesday 21st March 2023
  314 signatures in the past week, 388 in total

• Stop UK pensioners paying income tax on their state pension
  Opened on Friday 31st March 2023
  285 signatures in the past week, 22,662 in total

• Make dogs attacking other pets a specific criminal offence
  Opened on Wednesday 3rd May 2023
  283 signatures in the past week, 15,081 in total

• Review child contact cases involving domestic abuse victims and increase support
  Opened on Friday 15th September 2023
  260 signatures in the past week, 260 in total

• Create a Lake District Engagement Body (LDEB) to support upland farming
  Opened on Tuesday 25th July 2023
  244 signatures in the past week, 272 in total

• Protect the NHS and All Healthcare: Require #MasksInHealthcare
  Opened on Wednesday 12th April 2023
  236 signatures in the past week, 6,683 in total

• Require taxis and private hire vehicles be licensed in the areas they operate
  Opened on Wednesday 12th April 2023
  235 signatures in the past week, 5,771 in total

• Create new requirements for dogs held under dangerous dogs legislation
  Opened on Wednesday 29th March 2023
  235 signatures in the past week, 10,872 in total

• Introduce 'Grow Your Own' Laws for Legal Medical Cannabis Patients (CBPM)
  Opened on Tuesday 4th April 2023
  234 signatures in the past week, 12,391 in total

• Stop deep-sea mining
  Opened on Friday 14th April 2023
  218 signatures in the past week, 34,445 in total

• Require leads, muzzles and licences for all dogs
  Opened on Monday 22nd May 2023
  216 signatures in the past week, 379 in total

• End shelter for single male asylum seekers and restrict helping migrant boats
  Opened on Wednesday 13th September 2023
  215 signatures in the past week, 307 in total

• Extend the older person's bus pass to cover free train travel
  Opened on Wednesday 22nd March 2023
  211 signatures in the past week, 21,862 in total

• Give fathers/second parents a right to 6 weeks' paid leave in baby's first year
  Opened on Tuesday 11th July 2023
  208 signatures in the past week, 5,890 in total

• Create international waters in Dover Strait, and turn back migrant boats
  Opened on Thursday 20th July 2023
  208 signatures in the past week, 2,026 in total

• Do not require schools to tell parents their child is transgender/non-binary
  Opened on Thursday 27th April 2023
  205 signatures in the past week, 37,557 in total

• Give British people priority need for accommodation
  Opened on Tuesday 8th August 2023
  192 signatures in the past week, 3,366 in total

• Make Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha public holidays
  Opened on Friday 28th April 2023
  191 signatures in the past week, 61,447 in total

• Require housing for wheelchair users be included in local housing plans
  Opened on Thursday 14th September 2023
  190 signatures in the past week, 190 in total

• Bring back a Dog Licence
  Opened on Monday 18th September 2023
  189 signatures in the past week, 192 in total

• Increase funding for child and adult eating disorder services
  Opened on Wednesday 13th September 2023
  188 signatures in the past week, 419 in total

• Ban primary schools from offering attendance awards
  Opened on Monday 18th September 2023
  176 signatures in the past week, 176 in total

• Make parental alienation a criminal offence
  Opened on Thursday 14th September 2023
  176 signatures in the past week, 176 in total

• Reform school uniform policies to tackle expensive costs
  Opened on Tuesday 25th July 2023
  175 signatures in the past week, 1,684 in total

• Fund routine prostate cancer screening tests for all men over 40
  Opened on Thursday 10th August 2023
  173 signatures in the past week, 294 in total

• Ban the import, manufacture, and sale of disposable e-cigarettes or vapes
  Opened on Wednesday 31st May 2023
  168 signatures in the past week, 1,561 in total

• Abolish Council Tax for State Pensioners
  Opened on Wednesday 22nd March 2023
  164 signatures in the past week, 22,724 in total

• Let airlines allow pets in the airplane’s cabin to and from the UK
  Opened on Thursday 6th April 2023
  161 signatures in the past week, 1,830 in total

• Require integrated care systems to have a specialist allergy nurse and dietician
  Opened on Thursday 27th April 2023
  157 signatures in the past week, 2,679 in total

• Hold a parliamentary vote on whether to reject amendments to the IHR 2005
  Opened on Monday 3rd April 2023
  156 signatures in the past week, 103,856 in total

• Stop all new oil and gas developments
  Opened on Friday 7th July 2023
  152 signatures in the past week, 14,102 in total

• Introduce a Suicide Prevention Act to seek to minimise suicides
  Opened on Wednesday 19th July 2023
  144 signatures in the past week, 4,517 in total

• Make reusable period product education mandatory for all schools
  Opened on Thursday 17th August 2023
  141 signatures in the past week, 1,963 in total

• Abolish Section 13 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1995
  Opened on Wednesday 29th March 2023
  139 signatures in the past week, 3,088 in total

• Make suicide prevention a compulsory part of the curriculum in Secondary Schools
  Opened on Wednesday 30th August 2023
  137 signatures in the past week, 529 in total

• A central register of Asbestos and phased removal of Asbestos from all buildings
  Opened on Friday 31st March 2023
  135 signatures in the past week, 10,469 in total

• Reform the Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme (VDPS) to improve support
  Opened on Monday 15th May 2023
  126 signatures in the past week, 2,782 in total

• Provide a minimum of 10 days statutory paid leave for victims of domestic abuse
  Opened on Wednesday 13th September 2023
  123 signatures in the past week, 174 in total

• Make MPs who are absent from their constituency and Parliament subject to recall
  Opened on Tuesday 25th July 2023
  122 signatures in the past week, 12,900 in total

• Increase penalties for shoplifting and abusing retail workers
  Opened on Friday 15th September 2023
  117 signatures in the past week, 117 in total

• Hold a Referendum to abolish the Scottish Parliment
  Opened on Thursday 7th September 2023
  114 signatures in the past week, 433 in total

• Stop applying VAT to bras.
  Opened on Tuesday 19th September 2023
  113 signatures in the past week, 113 in total

• Stop calling uranium mined fuels "clean energy"
  Opened on Thursday 21st September 2023
  111 signatures in the past week, 130 in total

• Make false claims about serving in the armed forces a specific criminal offence
  Opened on Thursday 7th September 2023
  111 signatures in the past week, 648 in total

• Legally pardon those convicted in Great Britain for offences of witchcraft
  Opened on Thursday 13th July 2023
  108 signatures in the past week, 525 in total

• Change the law to guarantee NHS dental care for residents in England
  Opened on Tuesday 23rd May 2023
  102 signatures in the past week, 517 in total