Petitions tagged with "Cost of living"

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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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• Provide funding to subsidise school uniforms for all children
  Open from Tuesday 23rd September 2025 to Monday 23rd March 2026
  83 signatures

• Cap profits at 10% of revenues for essential goods and services
  Open from Monday 14th April 2025 to Tuesday 14th October 2025
  83 signatures

• Reduce income tax rates for NHS staff
  Open from Friday 1st July 2022 to Sunday 15th January 2023
  82 signatures

• Reduce the standard rate of VAT to 15%
  Opened on Tuesday 11th November 2025
  80 signatures so far

• Implement a 5% Cap on Annual Council Tax Increases by Town and Parish Councils
  Open from Tuesday 22nd April 2025 to Wednesday 22nd October 2025
  79 signatures

• Fund fruit trees for public parks and green spaces
  Open from Wednesday 22nd June 2022 to Thursday 5th January 2023
  78 signatures

• Increase maintenance loans for university students
  Open from Wednesday 11th December 2024 to Wednesday 11th June 2025
  76 signatures

• Fund a free school uniform for every child
  Open from Thursday 22nd September 2022 to Wednesday 22nd March 2023
  73 signatures

• Pay full £650 Cost Of Living Payment and £400 energy rebate to everyone directly
  Open from Thursday 11th August 2022 to Saturday 25th February 2023
  73 signatures

• Review family court legal aid for working mothers who've survived domestic abuse
  Open from Wednesday 24th September 2025 to Tuesday 24th March 2026
  72 signatures

• Abolish National Minimum Wage & enforce National Living Wage For All Ages
  Open from Friday 5th September 2025 to Thursday 5th March 2026
  70 signatures

• Don’t require health & care workers to update visa for additional work
  Open from Wednesday 13th November 2024 to Tuesday 13th May 2025
  70 signatures

• Establish a "First Job" Tax break for Young Workers
  Open from Tuesday 13th May 2025 to Thursday 13th November 2025
  69 signatures

• Fund free prescriptions for English university students
  Open from Monday 14th July 2025 to Wednesday 14th January 2026
  69 signatures

• Fund school dentists for every school
  Open from Thursday 13th March 2025 to Saturday 13th September 2025
  68 signatures

• Increase annual Pension Protection Fund compensation for pre-1997 service
  Opened on Friday 14th November 2025
  68 signatures so far

• Remove the VAT element of tax from the cost of fuel at the pump
  Opened on Friday 17th April 2026
  67 signatures so far

• Ensure companies don't make excess profits to bring prices down to a fair amount
  Open from Tuesday 11th March 2025 to Thursday 11th September 2025
  65 signatures

• Add Politics & Economics lessons to the secondary school curriculum
  Opened on Tuesday 17th March 2026
  63 signatures so far

• Increase the tax free overnight allowance for HGV and PCV drivers to £50
  Opened on Monday 20th April 2026
  62 signatures so far

• Abolish CIS deduction for traffic marshalling and small relevant construction
  Opened on Monday 12th January 2026
  62 signatures so far

• Ban In-Contract Price Hikes—Honour Fixed Full Contract Deals, Despite Inflation
  Open from Wednesday 2nd July 2025 to Friday 2nd January 2026
  62 signatures

• Equalise the minimum wage for 18-20 year olds and 21+ workers
  Open from Monday 31st March 2025 to Tuesday 30th September 2025
  61 signatures

• Raise the National Living Wage to £12.50
  Open from Thursday 9th January 2025 to Wednesday 9th July 2025
  60 signatures

• Issue grants to repay Covid Bounce Back Loans up to £8,000 for small businesses
  Open from Monday 23rd January 2023 to Sunday 23rd July 2023
  58 signatures

• Increase Universal Credit and legacy benefits by £25 a week
  Open from Monday 31st October 2022 to Sunday 30th April 2023
  57 signatures

• Remove the 2 child limit for Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit
  Open from Monday 22nd August 2022 to Wednesday 8th March 2023
  56 signatures

• Require local authorities to freeze Council Tax at current levels
  Open from Monday 28th April 2025 to Tuesday 28th October 2025
  55 signatures

• Abolish the bedroom tax
  Open from Thursday 3rd November 2022 to Wednesday 3rd May 2023
  54 signatures

• Create a ten-year interest free loan for domestic green energy transition
  Open from Tuesday 2nd August 2022 to Thursday 16th February 2023
  54 signatures

• Grant 100% relief on business rates for retail, hospitality & leisure until 2024
  Open from Friday 24th June 2022 to Saturday 7th January 2023
  54 signatures

• Change income tax thresholds to help for cost of living for everyone
  Open from Wednesday 17th August 2022 to Friday 3rd March 2023
  53 signatures

• Require landlords to sell vacant properties to house homeless and refugees
  Opened on Monday 17th November 2025
  53 signatures so far

• Reduce corporation tax for small businesses with profits under £50,000 to 13%
  Open from Tuesday 24th December 2024 to Tuesday 24th June 2025
  52 signatures

• Allow members of the public to ask questions at PMQ's in Parliament
  Open from Friday 1st July 2022 to Sunday 15th January 2023
  52 signatures

• People Who Change Jobs Should Not Be Penalised By Losing Maternity Pay Rights
  Open from Tuesday 13th December 2022 to Tuesday 13th June 2023
  52 signatures

• Require schools to prioritise siblings over catchment area in admission policies
  Open from Wednesday 8th January 2025 to Tuesday 8th July 2025
  51 signatures

• Increase child maintenance payments
  Open from Friday 20th December 2024 to Friday 20th June 2025
  51 signatures

• Reduce fuel duty tax to at least half of the current rates
  Opened on Thursday 23rd April 2026
  49 signatures so far

• Abolish 'green' taxes and VAT on energy and fuel and reduce the fuel levy
  Opened on Tuesday 28th April 2026
  48 signatures so far

• Base Extended Producer Responsibility fees for packaging on units not weight
  Open from Wednesday 2nd April 2025 to Thursday 2nd October 2025
  48 signatures

• Allow parents to use their children's tax-free personal allowance
  Open from Tuesday 11th October 2022 to Tuesday 11th April 2023
  48 signatures

• Cut income tax by 5% for working parents who are British citizens
  Open from Wednesday 20th August 2025 to Friday 20th February 2026
  48 signatures

• Abolish the TV License for the elderly, students and basic rate tax payers.
  Open from Wednesday 2nd November 2022 to Tuesday 2nd May 2023
  48 signatures

• Review “NHS Low Income Scheme Threshold”. It’s still at same level as in 2015.
  Open from Monday 29th September 2025 to Sunday 29th March 2026
  47 signatures

• Reduce income tax from 20% to 10%
  Open from Thursday 22nd September 2022 to Wednesday 22nd March 2023
  47 signatures

• Provide funding for ingredients for food related GCSE subjects
  Open from Monday 13th October 2025 to Monday 13th April 2026
  47 signatures

• To reduce by 50% forthwith all ministerial salaries for a period of 2 years.
  Open from Wednesday 7th December 2022 to Wednesday 7th June 2023
  47 signatures

• Increase the Travel — mileage and fuel rates and allowances after 10000 miles
  Opened on Tuesday 14th April 2026
  46 signatures so far

• Stop charging double vehicle tax for the month in which a vehicle is sold
  Open from Wednesday 24th August 2022 to Friday 10th March 2023
  44 signatures

• Remove requirement to have motor insurance unless you have past driving offences
  Open from Monday 27th January 2025 to Sunday 27th July 2025
  44 signatures

• Raise the minimum wage for people aged 16-17 to match that for 18-year-olds
  Open from Monday 21st November 2022 to Sunday 21st May 2023
  44 signatures

• Fund free public transport for work-related travel by emergency services workers
  Open from Monday 20th June 2022 to Tuesday 3rd January 2023
  43 signatures

• Exempt Government Ministers from the £400 energy bill discount
  Open from Wednesday 1st June 2022 to Thursday 15th December 2022
  43 signatures

• Cut Fuel Duty by 20p per Litre to Reduce the Cost of Living.
  Opened on Friday 1st May 2026
  43 signatures so far

• Legislate against 'price-gouging' practices
  Open from Tuesday 22nd April 2025 to Wednesday 22nd October 2025
  43 signatures

• Seek regulation with other governments of cross-Channel ferry & rail services
  Opened on Monday 23rd February 2026
  42 signatures so far

• Remove the freeze on UK pensioners living overseas.
  Open from Wednesday 7th September 2022 to Tuesday 21st March 2023
  42 signatures

• Abolish all toll roads
  Open from Wednesday 4th June 2025 to Thursday 4th December 2025
  42 signatures

• Fund another round of cost-of-living payments
  Opened on Wednesday 26th November 2025
  41 signatures so far

• Cancel SLC debt for educators with degrees earned before teacher apprenticeships
  Open from Wednesday 16th July 2025 to Friday 16th January 2026
  41 signatures

• Raise income threshold for free school meals to reflect cost of living crisis
  Open from Tuesday 13th May 2025 to Thursday 13th November 2025
  40 signatures

• Allow Workers to Pay Essential Living Costs Before Income Tax Is Deducted
  Opened on Tuesday 6th January 2026
  40 signatures so far

• Increase tax allowance to £15,000 for 80 yrs+ and remove 25p age addition
  Opened on Monday 27th April 2026
  40 signatures so far

• Provide baby boxes for all newborn children in England
  Open from Wednesday 1st June 2022 to Thursday 15th December 2022
  40 signatures

• Raise the tax personal allowance reduction threshold from £100,000 to £150,000
  Open from Monday 4th July 2022 to Wednesday 18th January 2023
  38 signatures

• Limit the school week to three days
  Open from Monday 3rd October 2022 to Monday 3rd April 2023
  38 signatures

• Introduce taxes on aviation kerosene
  Open from Wednesday 20th July 2022 to Friday 3rd February 2023
  37 signatures

• Remove all surcharges for paying for VED (Road Tax)
  Open from Tuesday 7th June 2022 to Wednesday 21st December 2022
  36 signatures

• Ban public transport workers from going on strike
  Open from Monday 25th July 2022 to Wednesday 8th February 2023
  36 signatures

• Ban private jets from UK airspace
  

• Make commission only pay illegal
  Opened on Wednesday 7th January 2026
  36 signatures so far

• Introduce a new benefit for university students
  Open from Friday 20th December 2024 to Friday 20th June 2025
  36 signatures

• Reverse increases in university tuition fees
  Opened on Thursday 27th November 2025
  35 signatures so far

• Cap retail oil and gas prices
  Opened on Tuesday 14th April 2026
  35 signatures so far

• Suspend leaving payments for Ministers leaving office from July-September 2022
  Open from Thursday 14th July 2022 to Saturday 28th January 2023
  34 signatures

• Make domestic battery installations mandatory for new homes under the FHS
  Opened on Friday 6th February 2026
  33 signatures so far

• Give small businesses a grant to repay any outstanding Bounce Back Loans
  Open from Friday 22nd July 2022 to Sunday 5th February 2023
  33 signatures

• Make student maintenance loans proportional to the cost of living in each city
  Opened on Thursday 15th January 2026
  32 signatures so far

• Demand reparations from the US for impact on the UK economy
  Opened on Tuesday 5th May 2026
  32 signatures so far

• Legalise and regulate e-scooters & e-bikes exceeding current limits for road use
  Opened on Monday 27th April 2026
  31 signatures so far

• Introduce a discounted TV License for students
  Open from Monday 18th July 2022 to Wednesday 1st February 2023
  31 signatures

• Require all workplaces to pay employees every fortnight
  Open from Wednesday 30th July 2025 to Friday 30th January 2026
  30 signatures

• Set fixed prices that councils can charge for burials and ban leasehold plots
  Open from Thursday 10th July 2025 to Saturday 10th January 2026
  30 signatures

• Remove income tax and National Insurance for those earning under £24k a year
  Open from Monday 22nd August 2022 to Wednesday 8th March 2023
  30 signatures

• Fund free public transport for all 16-18 year olds in full-time education
  Open from Friday 11th November 2022 to Thursday 11th May 2023
  28 signatures

• Cap the cost of council fines at 100% of the original charge
  Open from Thursday 27th March 2025 to Saturday 27th September 2025
  28 signatures

• Deliver an emergency budget to deal with the cost of living crisis
  Open from Wednesday 17th August 2022 to Friday 3rd March 2023
  28 signatures

• Exempt properties rented by three unrelated people from HMO rules
  Open from Tuesday 6th May 2025 to Thursday 6th November 2025
  27 signatures

• Compulsory voting in UK General Elections
  Open from Monday 21st November 2022 to Sunday 21st May 2023
  27 signatures

• Increase support for men's mental health and awareness of available support
  Open from Thursday 12th January 2023 to Wednesday 12th July 2023
  26 signatures

• Cap failed payment fees for individuals and small businesses
  Opened on Thursday 12th February 2026
  26 signatures so far

• Introduce a statutory minimum real-wage growth target & freeze energy bills
  Opened on Tuesday 2nd December 2025
  26 signatures so far

• Grant free prescriptions to people receiving statutory sick pay (SSP)
  Open from Friday 26th August 2022 to Sunday 12th March 2023
  26 signatures

• Ban 8 hour a week employment contracts
  Open from Tuesday 16th September 2025 to Monday 16th March 2026
  26 signatures

• Ban rent rises for social housing during rising cost of living
  Open from Tuesday 31st January 2023 to Monday 31st July 2023
  25 signatures

• Create an Education Travel Tax Relief scheme to offset peak holiday costs
  Opened on Tuesday 24th February 2026
  25 signatures so far

• Freeze student loan repayments for 12 months
  Open from Tuesday 9th August 2022 to Thursday 23rd February 2023
  25 signatures

• Do not increase defence spending due to situation in Iran
  Opened on Monday 13th April 2026
  24 signatures so far

• People on Contribution based should be helped the same as income related benefit
  Open from Wednesday 1st June 2022 to Thursday 15th December 2022
  24 signatures

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