Petitions tagged with "Devastating"

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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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• Broker a ceasefire for all sides in Yemen to carry out humanitarian aid
  Open from Thursday 16th July 2020 to Saturday 16th January 2021
  211,848 signatures

• Allow football fans to attend matches at all levels
  Open from Tuesday 29th September 2020 to Monday 29th March 2021
  200,571 signatures

• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test
  Opened on Monday 9th February 2026
  149,354 signatures so far

• Increase funding for urgent research into devastating motor neurone disease
  Open from Wednesday 6th January 2021 to Tuesday 6th July 2021
  110,700 signatures

• Make it a legal requirement for drivers to stop & report collisions with cats
  Open from Wednesday 2nd February 2022 to Tuesday 2nd August 2022
  102,437 signatures

• One-off Grant To Be Paid To Anyone Who Has Not Benefited From A Covid-19 Scheme
  Open from Wednesday 3rd June 2020 to Thursday 3rd December 2020
  55,188 signatures

• Do not implement a second national lockdown or other restrictions this winter
  Open from Monday 12th October 2020 to Monday 12th April 2021
  34,608 signatures

• Longer sentences for child sex offenders, sex offenders and rapists
  Open from Tuesday 4th August 2020 to Thursday 4th February 2021
  22,121 signatures

• Stop the importation of honey bees into GB from the EU via Northern Ireland
  Open from Tuesday 23rd March 2021 to Thursday 23rd September 2021
  16,932 signatures

• Extend the new dog abduction theft offence to cover cats and all kept animals
  Open from Wednesday 8th December 2021 to Wednesday 8th June 2022
  16,006 signatures

• Do not end legal obligations to self-isolate if people test positive for covid
  Open from Wednesday 26th January 2022 to Tuesday 26th July 2022
  14,011 signatures

• Revoke Government cuts to global health research
  Open from Tuesday 23rd March 2021 to Thursday 23rd September 2021
  12,341 signatures

• Fund adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) screening for children at birth.
  Open from Monday 14th December 2020 to Monday 14th June 2021
  11,840 signatures

• Introduce a National Pet Exchange Register
  Open from Wednesday 28th October 2020 to Wednesday 28th April 2021
  11,627 signatures

• Provide funding to local authorities to protect health visiting provision
  Open from Friday 2nd July 2021 to Sunday 2nd January 2022
  11,528 signatures

• Abandon DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper & create National Disability Strategy
  Open from Monday 28th April 2025 to Tuesday 28th October 2025
  11,035 signatures

• A national holiday and day of remembrance for those lost in the COVID pandemic
  Open from Friday 15th January 2021 to Thursday 15th July 2021
  10,648 signatures

• Record and publish numbers of people with long Covid
  Open from Wednesday 14th April 2021 to Thursday 14th October 2021
  8,808 signatures

• Introduce a 12-month amnesty on APR and BPR policy proposals
  Open from Tuesday 6th May 2025 to Thursday 6th November 2025
  7,323 signatures

• Extend income replacement schemes to those who don't currently qualify
  Open from Tuesday 24th November 2020 to Monday 24th May 2021
  6,906 signatures

• Increase research funding for devastating disease Multiple System Atrophy (MSA)
  Open from Wednesday 14th April 2021 to Thursday 14th October 2021
  5,761 signatures

• Require a trained FLO to be assigned to families bereaved by suicide
  Open from Tuesday 5th August 2025 to Thursday 5th February 2026
  4,801 signatures

• Fund Cancer Drugs Fund immunotherapy drugs to extend NICE’s 2 year limit
  Open from Monday 20th July 2020 to Wednesday 20th January 2021
  2,860 signatures

• Screen for Vasa previa in the NHS
  Opened on Friday 20th March 2026
  2,706 signatures so far

• Update the RHLG guidance so that it includes event hire & exhibition companies
  Open from Wednesday 19th August 2020 to Friday 19th February 2021
  2,514 signatures

• Fund Memorial for Gaza Children Honouring Peace, Compassion
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  2,159 signatures

• Ban the use of rawhide in dog treats in the UK
  Open from Thursday 13th August 2020 to Saturday 13th February 2021
  1,917 signatures

• Allow ice rinks to remain open under Tier 3 of the regional lockdown system
  Open from Friday 4th December 2020 to Friday 4th June 2021
  1,636 signatures

• Make bullying a specific criminal offence
  Open from Monday 12th April 2021 to Tuesday 12th October 2021
  1,625 signatures

• Stop the importation of honey bees into GB from the EU via Northern Ireland
  Open from Tuesday 27th May 2025 to Thursday 27th November 2025
  1,523 signatures

• Encourage banks to delay 40% bank overdraft charges during the corona pandemic
  Open from Tuesday 24th March 2020 to Thursday 24th September 2020
  1,435 signatures

• Fund supported living for all autistic adults
  Opened on Tuesday 9th December 2025
  1,257 signatures so far

• Ban all gambling ads from social media, TV and all other platforms
  Open from Tuesday 23rd September 2025 to Monday 23rd March 2026
  1,219 signatures

• Two year minimum sentencing for 1st time offenders caught with a knife 16 yrs +
  Open from Tuesday 20th October 2020 to Tuesday 20th April 2021
  1,139 signatures

• Make the teaching of criminal offences & their consequences compulsory in school
  Open from Tuesday 18th March 2025 to Thursday 18th September 2025
  1,056 signatures

• Grant Legal Right for Parents to Record All Interactions with Social Service
  Open from Tuesday 8th July 2025 to Thursday 8th January 2026
  1,031 signatures

• Extend statutory bereavement awards to stillborn babies
  Open from Friday 12th November 2021 to Thursday 12th May 2022
  995 signatures

• Allow people with a medical condition to reapply for a driving licence online
  Open from Monday 1st November 2021 to Sunday 1st May 2022
  887 signatures

• Make Road Traffic Safety a mandatory part of the National Curriculum
  Open from Friday 25th July 2025 to Sunday 25th January 2026
  868 signatures

• Make Emotional and Psychological Abuse of Children a Specific criminal Offence
  Open from Thursday 31st December 2020 to Wednesday 30th June 2021
  842 signatures

• Launch a review into job shortages facing new qualified midwives & fund support
  Open from Wednesday 23rd July 2025 to Friday 23rd January 2026
  739 signatures

• Ban the Nazi salute, like in Germany, and Austria
  Open from Wednesday 12th March 2025 to Friday 12th September 2025
  734 signatures

• Give business with prolonged closure due to Covid-19 additional grant funding
  Open from Friday 10th July 2020 to Sunday 10th January 2021
  694 signatures

• Require coercive control awareness training for some sectors
  Open from Thursday 19th December 2024 to Thursday 19th June 2025
  661 signatures

• Fund annual heart screenings for under 35s
  Open from Thursday 21st July 2022 to Saturday 4th February 2023
  584 signatures

• Allow families to prevent press reporting of a loved one’s suicide
  Open from Wednesday 18th March 2020 to Friday 18th September 2020
  482 signatures

• Do not scrap the Work Capability Assessment (WCA)
  Open from Friday 2nd May 2025 to Sunday 2nd November 2025
  476 signatures

• Introduce prison cell visits for students - help reduce knife crime.
  Open from Wednesday 14th April 2021 to Thursday 14th October 2021
  462 signatures

• Introduce new regulatory and financial measures to the Building Safety Bill
  Open from Friday 28th January 2022 to Thursday 28th July 2022
  432 signatures

• Increase Research Funding and Improve Treatment for Interstitial Cystitis (IC)
  Open from Tuesday 7th January 2025 to Monday 7th July 2025
  420 signatures

• Fund full sick pay for employees that are off work due to COVID
  Open from Thursday 15th October 2020 to Thursday 15th April 2021
  333 signatures

• Make "One-Punch" Killings Carry Harsher Sentences
  Opened on Wednesday 25th March 2026
  332 signatures so far

• Grant £10K per year to small retailers facing losses from shoplifting
  Open from Friday 28th March 2025 to Sunday 28th September 2025
  305 signatures

• Require additional security measures in new cars to prevent car theft
  Open from Wednesday 1st February 2023 to Tuesday 1st August 2023
  301 signatures

• Commission & fund a National Pandemic Memorial, Institute & annual commemoration
  Open from Wednesday 3rd June 2020 to Thursday 3rd December 2020
  280 signatures

• Fund a free, nationwide 'Parental Control App' to keep all children safe online
  Open from Monday 24th March 2025 to Wednesday 24th September 2025
  278 signatures

• Fund the use of environmentally friendly PPE in hospitals and care settings
  Open from Wednesday 17th February 2021 to Tuesday 17th August 2021
  254 signatures

• Reform energy pricing and taxes to better protect lower income households
  Open from Tuesday 9th August 2022 to Thursday 23rd February 2023
  227 signatures

• Enact the Socio-Economic Duty of the Equality Act 2010.
  Open from Friday 29th November 2024 to Thursday 29th May 2025
  222 signatures

• Remove travel restrictions during visa processing for UK based applicants.
  Open from Thursday 17th February 2022 to Wednesday 17th August 2022
  206 signatures

• Extend death by dangerous/careless driving offences to apply on private land
  Open from Friday 9th July 2021 to Sunday 9th January 2022
  206 signatures

• new mother of babies up to 3 years visit one other household in a support bubble
  Open from Thursday 5th November 2020 to Wednesday 5th May 2021
  197 signatures

• Allow wedding guests observing social distancing rules to remove masks in church
  Open from Wednesday 12th August 2020 to Friday 12th February 2021
  188 signatures

• Entitlement to bereavement leave after baby loss in first 24 weeks of pregnancy.
  Open from Wednesday 27th November 2024 to Tuesday 27th May 2025
  187 signatures

• Introduce an independent regulator of the Child Maintenance Service
  Open from Wednesday 31st March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  178 signatures

• Reduce student loan debt and interest to mitigate the impact of Covid-19
  Open from Monday 19th April 2021 to Tuesday 19th October 2021
  173 signatures

• Review police pursuit rules to ensure proportionality and safety
  Open from Monday 23rd December 2024 to Monday 23rd June 2025
  163 signatures

• Prioritise pregnant women and their birth partners for Covid-19 vaccination
  Open from Friday 23rd April 2021 to Saturday 23rd October 2021
  159 signatures

• Re-direct £2.5bn prison fund into youth services
  Open from Wednesday 9th September 2020 to Tuesday 9th March 2021
  157 signatures

• Make it illegal for the media to shame victims of romance fraud
  Open from Wednesday 12th March 2025 to Friday 12th September 2025
  151 signatures

• Reform food, energy, environmental and fishing policy to save the planet
  Open from Wednesday 21st October 2020 to Wednesday 21st April 2021
  148 signatures

• Lower the age for Cervical Screenings from 25 to 21
  Opened on Thursday 16th April 2026
  140 signatures so far

• Extend the limit for weddings to 30 with COVID 19 restrictions
  Open from Wednesday 30th September 2020 to Tuesday 30th March 2021
  134 signatures

• Legalise production and use of psilocybin and LSD for medicinal purposes
  Open from Wednesday 21st April 2021 to Thursday 21st October 2021
  132 signatures

• Ban on knife possession except for licensed/trade purposes & increase sentences
  Open from Monday 20th January 2025 to Sunday 20th July 2025
  126 signatures

• Allow wedding receptions in Tier 3 locations with Covid testing
  Open from Thursday 3rd December 2020 to Thursday 3rd June 2021
  123 signatures

• Make compassionate leave for pet loss a legal right in the UK
  Open from Tuesday 4th November 2025 to Monday 4th May 2026
  119 signatures

• Make electronic tagging mandatory for all convicted sex offenders
  Open from Friday 11th November 2022 to Thursday 11th May 2023
  110 signatures

• Immediately lift the sanctions on Russia
  Open from Wednesday 31st August 2022 to Tuesday 14th March 2023
  107 signatures

• Make Medicine Prescriptions Free for Asthma Pump Users
  Opened on Thursday 22nd January 2026
  105 signatures so far

• Increase funding for aftercare support for people with eating disorders
  Open from Monday 8th March 2021 to Wednesday 8th September 2021
  102 signatures

• Require large companies to only use responsibly sourced palm oil in products.
  Open from Thursday 5th May 2022 to Saturday 19th November 2022
  102 signatures

• Abolish time limits for legal action for medical negligence related to pregnancy
  Open from Wednesday 28th April 2021 to Thursday 28th October 2021
  101 signatures

• Fund Cervical Length Check at 12-Week Scan to Help Prevent Preterm Births
  Opened on Wednesday 4th February 2026
  99 signatures so far

• Ban gambling advertising on Television
  Open from Monday 5th July 2021 to Wednesday 5th January 2022
  94 signatures

• Offer asylum in the UK to all South Africans at risk due to current unrest
  Open from Friday 23rd July 2021 to Sunday 23rd January 2022
  82 signatures

• Support Men’s Mental Health: End the Stigma, Expand Support, and Save Lives
  Open from Friday 21st March 2025 to Sunday 21st September 2025
  69 signatures

• Lower the age a stillborn baby can legally be registered, to 16 weeks old.
  Open from Monday 10th May 2021 to Wednesday 10th November 2021
  69 signatures

• Ban gambling machines in pubs/clubs
  Open from Friday 7th November 2025 to Thursday 7th May 2026
  66 signatures

• Do not send any UK military to Ukraine, and send aid only
  Open from Monday 28th February 2022 to Sunday 28th August 2022
  65 signatures

• Fund a public awareness campaign on brain aneurysms
  Open from Friday 22nd October 2021 to Friday 22nd April 2022
  64 signatures

• Increase minimum & maximum sentences for crimes against the elderly & vulnerable
  Open from Monday 28th September 2020 to Sunday 28th March 2021
  64 signatures

• Ban the sale of machetes and hunting knives to those without a licence
  Opened on Friday 10th April 2026
  56 signatures so far

• Require family court to refer findings of abuse & coercive control to the police
  Opened on Monday 26th January 2026
  56 signatures so far

• Review police pursuit rules to ensure proportionality and safety
  Open from Monday 15th September 2025 to Sunday 15th March 2026
  52 signatures

• Suspend VAT on pet food and pet care for 12 months, and reduce to 5% thereafter
  Open from Monday 15th August 2022 to Wednesday 1st March 2023
  50 signatures

• Make microchips proof of animal ownership
  Open from Thursday 15th October 2020 to Thursday 15th April 2021
  49 signatures

• Add Greece to the UK 'Green' Travel List as of 17th May 2021.
  Open from Thursday 13th May 2021 to Saturday 13th November 2021
  48 signatures

• Allow adult adoption in the UK
  Open from Thursday 20th October 2022 to Thursday 20th April 2023
  47 signatures

• Make children eligible for Bereavement Support Payment after death of a parent
  Opened on Tuesday 24th March 2026
  47 signatures so far

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