Petitions tagged with "Armed Forces"

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Tags are generated automatically from the petition contents, so sometimes they do end up being a bit imprecise. But manually tagging over a 100,000 petitions would be a bit of a stretch, so we'll just have to put up with the occasional dodgy tag. Sorry about that.

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• Prohibit employers from requiring staff to be vaccinated against Covid-19
  Open from Monday 1st November 2021 to Sunday 1st May 2022
  232,534 signatures

• Enshrine the Military Covenant in UK Law
  Open from Friday 31st July 2020 to Sunday 31st January 2021
  68,897 signatures

• Make the Armed Forces pension tax free
  Open from Monday 18th August 2025 to Wednesday 18th February 2026
  31,004 signatures

• Make impersonating military service/wearing unearned medals a criminal offence
  Open from Tuesday 7th October 2025 to Tuesday 7th April 2026
  16,710 signatures

• Disregard compensation paid to injured service personnel from UC calculation
  Opened on Thursday 26th February 2026
  12,385 signatures so far

• Provide funding to preserve and protect cemeteries around the UK.
  Open from Friday 21st February 2025 to Thursday 21st August 2025
  10,852 signatures

• Allow the armed forces to train in their own gym facilities during Covid-19.
  Open from Monday 11th January 2021 to Sunday 11th July 2021
  10,392 signatures

• Recognise ‘Veteran’ as a protected characteristic in law.
  Opened on Tuesday 6th January 2026
  7,698 signatures so far

• Hold a referendum on the abolition of the Monarchy
  Open from Monday 21st December 2020 to Monday 21st June 2021
  7,506 signatures

• Grant full UK citizenship rights to Commonwealth Armed Forces Veterans
  Open from Thursday 30th July 2020 to Saturday 30th January 2021
  6,193 signatures

• Publish updated statistics on Armed Forces Veteran suicides annually
  Open from Friday 16th May 2025 to Sunday 16th November 2025
  5,360 signatures

• Amend council housing points system so homeless veterans receive higher priority
  Open from Tuesday 28th July 2020 to Thursday 28th January 2021
  4,428 signatures

• Support our Forces - Establish the Wider Service Medal
  Open from Tuesday 4th January 2022 to Monday 4th July 2022
  4,269 signatures

• Exempt all military families from school fines — let them be with family.
  Opened on Friday 20th March 2026
  3,574 signatures so far

• Establish a bank holiday on the Monday after Remembrance Sunday
  Open from Friday 28th March 2025 to Sunday 28th September 2025
  3,566 signatures

• Investigate press coverage of Covid-19 outbreak as part of any public inquiry
  Open from Monday 22nd February 2021 to Sunday 22nd August 2021
  2,134 signatures

• Hold a referendum on the monarchy when the current monarch's reign ends
  Open from Wednesday 18th May 2022 to Friday 2nd December 2022
  2,078 signatures

• Set up the system for armed forces veterans to apply for a Veteran ID card
  Open from Tuesday 8th November 2022 to Monday 8th May 2023
  1,533 signatures

• Prevent the prosecution of veterans for historical offences.
  Open from Tuesday 18th February 2025 to Monday 18th August 2025
  1,347 signatures

• Review and enhance the rights of Service Family Accommodation (SFA) tenants
  Open from Tuesday 31st January 2023 to Monday 31st July 2023
  1,158 signatures

• Limit Postal Votes
  Open from Friday 23rd October 2020 to Friday 23rd April 2021
  1,040 signatures

• Fund more support for armed forces veterans when they leave
  Open from Monday 10th March 2025 to Wednesday 10th September 2025
  996 signatures

• Allow Veterans of the Armed Forces to claim their state pension at the age of 60
  Open from Wednesday 4th December 2024 to Wednesday 4th June 2025
  896 signatures

• Make Service In Armed Forces An Automatic Route To Full British Citizenship.
  Open from Monday 20th December 2021 to Monday 20th June 2022
  611 signatures

• Veterans Day Bank Holiday the Monday following Remembrance Sunday
  Open from Wednesday 23rd November 2022 to Tuesday 23rd May 2023
  456 signatures

• Fund month of celebrations of Britain's uniformed services
  Open from Wednesday 20th November 2024 to Tuesday 20th May 2025
  416 signatures

• Allow celiacs to join the armed forces
  Open from Monday 4th January 2021 to Sunday 4th July 2021
  409 signatures

• Grant UK citizenship to Commonwealth & Nepalese Armed Forces veterans
  Open from Wednesday 24th February 2021 to Tuesday 24th August 2021
  387 signatures

• Fund £10,000 armed forces funeral grants & pension inheritance rules
  Opened on Wednesday 18th March 2026
  385 signatures so far

• Introduce legislation to ensure national marking of Remembrance Day
  Opened on Wednesday 26th November 2025
  357 signatures so far

• Hold a referendum on a future UK Security/Defence pact with any European country
  Open from Tuesday 13th May 2025 to Thursday 13th November 2025
  342 signatures

• House or accommodate all former service and emergency service homeless personnel
  Open from Thursday 3rd September 2020 to Wednesday 3rd March 2021
  341 signatures

• Government to fund mental health assistance dogs for armed forces veterans
  Open from Friday 28th May 2021 to Sunday 28th November 2021
  316 signatures

• Government to set up and fund an Emergency Services Covenant Trust
  Open from Friday 7th February 2025 to Thursday 7th August 2025
  313 signatures

• Review of the Royal Duchies, Crown estate and sovereign grant
  Open from Friday 29th November 2024 to Thursday 29th May 2025
  285 signatures

• Lower the voting age to 16 for all elections and referendums in England.
  Open from Thursday 11th February 2021 to Wednesday 11th August 2021
  280 signatures

• Reform Postal Vote Legislation!
  Open from Thursday 13th May 2021 to Saturday 13th November 2021
  277 signatures

• Give foreign nationals who served in the Armed Forces rights to remain in the UK
  Open from Wednesday 8th December 2021 to Wednesday 8th June 2022
  272 signatures

• Provide FREE Social Care to all in the Armed Forces and Emergency Services.
  Open from Tuesday 25th August 2020 to Thursday 25th February 2021
  259 signatures

• Make conscription a condition of citizenship for migrants who entered illegally
  Open from Tuesday 20th May 2025 to Thursday 20th November 2025
  246 signatures

• Diabetes should not prevent someone serving in the British armed forces
  Open from Thursday 9th October 2025 to Thursday 9th April 2026
  237 signatures

• Exempt medically discharged Commonwealth service people from immigration control
  Open from Wednesday 9th July 2025 to Friday 9th January 2026
  189 signatures

• Abandon planned cut of 10,000 Army soldiers
  Open from Tuesday 30th March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  173 signatures

• Reinstate the NI Legacy Act protecting veterans from prosecution
  Opened on Tuesday 16th December 2025
  168 signatures so far

• Establish an Independent Inquiry into alleged Sexual Abuse in the Armed Forces
  Open from Wednesday 21st May 2025 to Friday 21st November 2025
  164 signatures

• Keep the 5-year Indefinite Leave to Remain ILR for ex-Gurkhas & their families
  Opened on Tuesday 2nd December 2025
  163 signatures so far

• Ban MPs from accepting any gifts or donations from businesses and individuals
  Opened on Monday 1st December 2025
  158 signatures so far

• Require schools to ringfence SPP and report how it helps service children.
  Opened on Wednesday 6th May 2026
  155 signatures so far

• Ensure every UK Armed Forces veteran funeral is offered Armed Forces recognition
  Opened on Friday 10th April 2026
  152 signatures so far

• Stop asylum seekers being given housing in military establishments
  Opened on Monday 1st December 2025
  138 signatures so far

• Make 'stolen valour' - false claims about military service - a criminal offence
  Open from Monday 27th June 2022 to Tuesday 10th January 2023
  124 signatures

• Provide funding for legal advice & representation for Armed Forces personnel
  Opened on Tuesday 10th February 2026
  119 signatures so far

• Ban demonstrations/protests on remembrance day 11/11.
  Open from Wednesday 19th February 2025 to Tuesday 19th August 2025
  118 signatures

• Provide any necessary military hardware needed to defend Ukraine.
  Open from Wednesday 5th October 2022 to Wednesday 5th April 2023
  114 signatures

• Allow Type 1 diabetics to be individually assessed to join the Armed Forces
  Open from Thursday 24th April 2025 to Friday 24th October 2025
  111 signatures

• Make the day after Remembrance Sunday a Public Holiday
  Open from Friday 19th November 2021 to Thursday 19th May 2022
  110 signatures

• Create an Operation Rescript medal for Armed Forces supporting Covid-19 response
  Open from Wednesday 16th February 2022 to Tuesday 16th August 2022
  110 signatures

• Change priority for social housing guidance to make all veterans eligible
  Open from Tuesday 8th July 2025 to Thursday 8th January 2026
  104 signatures

• Require all military sexual assault claims be handled by civilian authorities
  Open from Monday 14th April 2025 to Tuesday 14th October 2025
  104 signatures

• Urgently & Substantially build up the UK Armed Force's conventional Capabilities
  Open from Monday 28th February 2022 to Sunday 28th August 2022
  95 signatures

• Restrict the right to a Postal Vote to certain groups
  Open from Thursday 23rd January 2025 to Wednesday 23rd July 2025
  89 signatures

• Fund guaranteed housing for armed forces veterans
  Open from Tuesday 18th May 2021 to Thursday 18th November 2021
  88 signatures

• Issue earned medals to Armed Forces Veterans automatically without need to apply
  Open from Monday 27th October 2025 to Monday 27th April 2026
  81 signatures

• Extend ELCAS claim period for Armed Forces Personnel after leaving service
  Opened on Friday 16th January 2026
  77 signatures so far

• Bring Back National Military Service.
  Open from Friday 5th February 2021 to Thursday 5th August 2021
  75 signatures

• Substantially increase defence spending and the size of the Armed Forces.
  Open from Monday 28th February 2022 to Sunday 28th August 2022
  74 signatures

• Make the teaching of Black history compulsory in primary and secondary schools.
  Open from Wednesday 28th April 2021 to Thursday 28th October 2021
  73 signatures

• Public Vote Required on Overseas Aid Spending
  Opened on Wednesday 1st April 2026
  73 signatures so far

• Award staff of the NHS a long service medal
  Open from Thursday 10th November 2022 to Wednesday 10th May 2023
  72 signatures

• Create a medal for cold war veterans
  Open from Wednesday 16th December 2020 to Wednesday 16th June 2021
  70 signatures

• Allow Coeliacs to serve in the Royal Navy and other British Armed Force Branches
  Open from Monday 12th July 2021 to Wednesday 12th January 2022
  68 signatures

• Create a Sikh regiment in the British Army
  Open from Friday 12th September 2025 to Thursday 12th March 2026
  67 signatures

• Increase the Army Cadet Force Budget to £50 million
  Open from Friday 24th January 2025 to Thursday 24th July 2025
  65 signatures

• Allow people with peanut / nut allergies to join the armed forces
  Open from Thursday 6th January 2022 to Wednesday 6th July 2022
  62 signatures

• Allow people with coeliac disease to join the armed forces
  Opened on Monday 8th December 2025
  60 signatures so far

• Make all Armed Forces Service Pensions (including Lump Sum) Tax exempt
  Open from Wednesday 2nd December 2020 to Wednesday 2nd June 2021
  60 signatures

• Fund access to private health care for all injured British veterans
  Opened on Wednesday 25th February 2026
  60 signatures so far

• Allow Gluten-Free applicants to join the British Army
  Open from Tuesday 18th March 2025 to Thursday 18th September 2025
  58 signatures

• Increase defence spending in the UK to at least 4% of GDP, immediately
  Open from Thursday 24th April 2025 to Friday 24th October 2025
  56 signatures

• Increase the State pension for all retired Armed Forces Veterans
  Open from Monday 26th April 2021 to Tuesday 26th October 2021
  55 signatures

• Eject US Armed Forces personnel from bases hosted by UK & apply to join BRICS
  Opened on Wednesday 11th March 2026
  53 signatures so far

• Allow humanitarian medal to be awarded retrospectively
  Opened on Thursday 12th March 2026
  52 signatures so far

• Allow people to take an oath of allegiance to the UK instead of the Crown
  Opened on Tuesday 28th April 2026
  50 signatures so far

• Do not cut our Armed Forces or UK Defence budget
  Open from Thursday 23rd July 2020 to Saturday 23rd January 2021
  48 signatures

• Recognise Junior Service (16 - 18) in HM Armed Forces as Pensionable Service
  Open from Thursday 7th August 2025 to Saturday 7th February 2026
  48 signatures

• Lift the ban on recruiting Type 1 diabetics to the Armed Forces
  Open from Monday 15th February 2021 to Sunday 15th August 2021
  48 signatures

• Introduce 5-year ILR route with mandatory volunteer service for UK graduates
  Opened on Monday 23rd February 2026
  47 signatures so far

• Waive immigration fees for commonwealth born veterans
  Open from Wednesday 22nd July 2020 to Friday 22nd January 2021
  46 signatures

• Reduce the retirement age for NHS staff to 55
  Open from Thursday 1st May 2025 to Saturday 1st November 2025
  43 signatures

• Scrap the UK Armed Forces’ blanket ban on recruits with diabetes
  Open from Friday 21st March 2025 to Sunday 21st September 2025
  41 signatures

• Increase UK defence budget
  Open from Monday 12th October 2020 to Monday 12th April 2021
  40 signatures

• Extend Armed Forces preserved pensions to pre-1975 veterans
  Open from Friday 24th January 2025 to Thursday 24th July 2025
  40 signatures

• Limit postal voting to elderly, disabled, people overseas & military personnel
  Opened on Tuesday 5th May 2026
  38 signatures so far

• End the face tattoo ban in UK Armed Forces
  Open from Thursday 5th June 2025 to Friday 5th December 2025
  37 signatures

• Review D&I workplace plans, particularly in emergency services & armed forces
  Open from Thursday 18th September 2025 to Wednesday 18th March 2026
  36 signatures

• Give people on the autistic spectrum the opportunity to join the armed forces
  Open from Wednesday 30th December 2020 to Wednesday 30th June 2021
  35 signatures

• Introduce a voluntary 0.1% income tax to support Ukraine
  Open from Friday 4th April 2025 to Saturday 4th October 2025
  34 signatures

• Offer households £350 per month for six months to house the British homeless
  Open from Wednesday 30th March 2022 to Friday 14th October 2022
  33 signatures

• Raise the annual limit on Commonwealth recruits for the UK Armed Forces
  Open from Thursday 5th June 2025 to Friday 5th December 2025
  33 signatures

• Review Coercive Control Law and Police Training
  Opened on Tuesday 13th January 2026
  33 signatures so far

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