Petitions tagged with "Economy"

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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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• Skilled worker visa holders & UK taxpayers eligible for Childcare Benefits
  Open from Wednesday 28th May 2025 to Friday 28th November 2025
  76 signatures

• Raise minimum wage to £15 for any person in employment
  Open from Wednesday 20th February 2019 to Tuesday 20th August 2019
  76 signatures

• Enable settlement route to Tier 2 ICT visa holders
  Open from Thursday 29th May 2014 to Monday 30th March 2015
  76 signatures

• Make RAF Mildenhall a Theme Park/Water Park or Shopping Centre.
  Open from Tuesday 2nd August 2016 to Thursday 2nd February 2017
  76 signatures

• Make the Bank of England the sole creator of new money in Britain as a national asset: stop commercial banks from creating our money supply as a debt.
  Open from Friday 5th August 2011 to Sunday 5th February 2012
  75 signatures

• Send aid to Mauritius to help clear the oil spill.
  Open from Tuesday 18th August 2020 to Thursday 18th February 2021
  75 signatures

• Reduce income tax & CGT to less than 30% and fill deficit in other ways
  Open from Thursday 7th August 2025 to Saturday 7th February 2026
  75 signatures

• Reintroduce The Eat Out To Help Out Scheme To Save The Hospitality Industry.
  Open from Wednesday 31st March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  75 signatures

• Fund campaign and incentives to prioritise British food and reduce food miles
  Open from Wednesday 30th April 2025 to Thursday 30th October 2025
  75 signatures

• Speed up tax repayments due from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to benefit the economy
  Open from Wednesday 26th February 2014 to Tuesday 26th August 2014
  74 signatures

• Make anyone lawfully resident in the UK for five years eligible for ILR
  Open from Wednesday 30th March 2022 to Friday 14th October 2022
  74 signatures

• Withdraw from the Paris agreement related to climate change
  Open from Friday 4th February 2022 to Thursday 4th August 2022
  74 signatures

• Make COVID-19 tests during quarantine free or optional
  Open from Tuesday 13th April 2021 to Wednesday 13th October 2021
  74 signatures

• Implement an unconditional Universal Basic Income to over 16s in UK
  Open from Wednesday 12th May 2021 to Friday 12th November 2021
  73 signatures

• Open negotiations to join the Schengen Area.
  Open from Wednesday 6th July 2016 to Friday 6th January 2017
  73 signatures

• Review and extend Sunday Trading Hours
  Open from Thursday 27th February 2025 to Wednesday 27th August 2025
  73 signatures

• Keep B1 English for Skilled Worker visa holders; B2 only for new applicants
  Opened on Thursday 9th April 2026
  72 signatures so far

• Using VAT rates and Licensing Rules to boost business, increase employment and reduce anti social behaviour
  Open from Monday 7th November 2011 to Tuesday 7th August 2012
  71 signatures

• Put a capping law on car insurance costs to help people get back to work.
  Open from Tuesday 7th February 2017 to Tuesday 2nd May 2017
  71 signatures

• Actively work to reduce the use of plastic packaging by retailers in the UK
  Open from Sunday 24th January 2016 to Sunday 24th July 2016
  70 signatures

• Businesses to repay furlough if subsequently making redundancies
  Open from Friday 21st August 2020 to Sunday 21st February 2021
  70 signatures

• Review rising costs & financial pressures on the UK hospitality sector
  Opened on Wednesday 4th February 2026
  69 signatures so far

• Humberton Fitties-action against disposal by N.E.Lincolnshire Council
  Open from Wednesday 8th October 2014 to Monday 30th March 2015
  69 signatures

• Negotiate a deal to keep the UK in the Digital Single Market
  Open from Wednesday 23rd May 2018 to Friday 23rd November 2018
  68 signatures

• Do not increase VAT
  Open from Monday 27th October 2025 to Monday 27th April 2026
  68 signatures

• Let's talk gross ££
  Open from Friday 4th May 2012 to Saturday 4th May 2013
  68 signatures

• Trident is the biggest impediment to climate change agreements
  Open from Tuesday 29th November 2011 to Thursday 29th November 2012
  68 signatures

• Credit Checks = Legal Discrimination for Employers
  Open from Monday 15th August 2011 to Wednesday 15th August 2012
  67 signatures

• Give all key workers a tax break for 2021
  Open from Thursday 21st January 2021 to Wednesday 21st July 2021
  67 signatures

• Create a scheme to create employment opportunities for homeless people
  Open from Friday 20th December 2024 to Friday 20th June 2025
  66 signatures

• Increase the National Minimum Wage to £10 per hour.
  Open from Tuesday 19th December 2017 to Tuesday 19th June 2018
  66 signatures

• Double science funding in order to boost our economy and invest in our future
  Open from Thursday 13th September 2012 to Wednesday 13th March 2013
  66 signatures

• Promote British business with a new Royal State Ship
  Open from Monday 22nd August 2011 to Wednesday 22nd August 2012
  66 signatures

• Ban the use of virgin plastics in all packaging sold in the UK before 2023
  Open from Monday 24th May 2021 to Wednesday 24th November 2021
  66 signatures

• Tavistock to Plymouth rail link, Devon
  Open from Monday 14th October 2013 to Tuesday 14th October 2014
  66 signatures

• Outlaw offshore outsourcing of public contracts
  Open from Tuesday 9th August 2011 to Thursday 9th August 2012
  65 signatures

• Grant all asylum seekers the right to work
  Open from Friday 20th December 2024 to Friday 20th June 2025
  64 signatures

• Introduce Liveable Basic Income and repurpose Jobcentre buildings for community
  Opened on Thursday 20th November 2025
  63 signatures so far

• Allow schools, universities, restaurants and shops to open in March
  Open from Thursday 4th February 2021 to Wednesday 4th August 2021
  63 signatures

• Adopt the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty
  Open from Tuesday 27th November 2018 to Monday 27th May 2019
  63 signatures

• Legalise use of Firearms (handguns and rifles) and means of self defence
  Open from Tuesday 12th November 2013 to Wednesday 12th November 2014
  63 signatures

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

• Ban inset days
  Open from Saturday 17th September 2011 to Monday 17th September 2012
  63 signatures

• Hold Referendum in Scotland, to end devolution and return control to Westminster
  Open from Friday 23rd February 2018 to Thursday 23rd August 2018
  63 signatures

• Increase student loan repayment thresholds with inflation
  Opened on Tuesday 31st March 2026
  63 signatures so far

• Remain neutral in foreign conflicts
  Opened on Monday 16th February 2026
  63 signatures so far

• Scrap Pubs Code 2016 and amend the Competition Act 1998 to ban tied beer lines
  Open from Wednesday 17th September 2025 to Tuesday 17th March 2026
  62 signatures

• Review the student loan system and explore alternatives
  Opened on Wednesday 25th February 2026
  62 signatures so far

• Govt to increase funding for UK space programme, launch technology and spaceport
  Open from Friday 23rd February 2018 to Thursday 23rd August 2018
  62 signatures

• Enforce Payments for UK Creative Professionals and Freelancers within 30 Days
  Open from Monday 4th August 2025 to Wednesday 4th February 2026
  61 signatures

• Ban redundancies while staff are on furlough
  Open from Friday 19th March 2021 to Sunday 19th September 2021
  61 signatures

• Improve the A14 Felixstowe to Catthorpe before the scheduled 2018/2019 upgrade to help boost the local economy of Suffolk and East Anglia
  Open from Wednesday 21st November 2012 to Thursday 21st November 2013
  61 signatures

• Exempt workers paying tax/NI for 12 months from the immigration health surcharge
  Open from Monday 26th July 2021 to Wednesday 26th January 2022
  61 signatures

• Fund the NHS to employ Blood Bikers
  Open from Thursday 29th May 2025 to Saturday 29th November 2025
  61 signatures

• Reopen viable coal mines & north sea gas & oil fields
  Opened on Tuesday 21st April 2026
  60 signatures so far

• Require conveyancing searches to include commercial noise & ban complaints
  Open from Tuesday 23rd September 2025 to Monday 23rd March 2026
  60 signatures

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

• Start an All-Party Beveridge-Style ‘Futures’ Report
  Open from Tuesday 2nd June 2020 to Wednesday 2nd December 2020
  60 signatures

• Legalisation of Cannabis in Northern Ireland and the UK
  Open from Wednesday 19th September 2012 to Thursday 19th September 2013
  60 signatures

• Cut Insurance Premium Tax for young drivers to help them get on the road
  Open from Thursday 13th December 2012 to Friday 13th December 2013
  60 signatures

• Make any overtime worked over standard contracted hours Tax free
  Open from Thursday 14th September 2017 to Wednesday 14th March 2018
  60 signatures

• Make the spreading of misinformation about a civil or health crisis an offence
  Open from Tuesday 13th April 2021 to Wednesday 13th October 2021
  60 signatures

• Lift ban on self-employment for international students on a Student visa
  Open from Friday 10th December 2021 to Friday 10th June 2022
  60 signatures

• Boarded-up houses should be forfeited to the Government after a period of time
  Open from Tuesday 9th August 2011 to Thursday 9th August 2012
  59 signatures

• Make the first Monday of October a Bank Holiday to mark National Curry Week
  Open from Thursday 7th October 2021 to Thursday 7th April 2022
  59 signatures

• Make bullying illegal in the UK
  Open from Tuesday 4th October 2011 to Thursday 4th October 2012
  59 signatures

• Increase the income tax personal allowance to £19305
  Open from Monday 30th May 2022 to Wednesday 14th December 2022
  59 signatures

• Replace all Benefits with a Universal Guaranteed Minimum Income
  Open from Tuesday 30th August 2016 to Tuesday 28th February 2017
  59 signatures

• Allow asylum seekers to work
  Open from Tuesday 6th September 2022 to Monday 20th March 2023
  58 signatures

• Increase carer allowance up to £100 pounds weekly
  Open from Thursday 3rd December 2015 to Friday 3rd June 2016
  58 signatures

• Increase minimum wage to £8.50 per hour
  Open from Friday 2nd September 2011 to Sunday 2nd September 2012
  58 signatures

• Reduce fuel tax to 20p per litre and VAT to 10% for petrol, diesel & heating oil
  Opened on Friday 1st May 2026
  58 signatures so far

• Allow children and teachers to take up to two week holiday in a single block during term and extend term by two weeks to compensate
  Open from Friday 17th January 2014 to Saturday 17th January 2015
  57 signatures

• Introduction of a UK Maglev network
  Open from Friday 5th August 2011 to Sunday 5th August 2012
  57 signatures

• Gerard Batten, to lead the delegation negotiating terms for leaving the EU
  Open from Friday 6th May 2016 to Sunday 6th November 2016
  57 signatures

• Review requirements to become mental health practitioner
  Opened on Thursday 23rd April 2026
  57 signatures so far

• Protect UK Kit Car Manufacturers from the ERR Bill
  Open from Friday 8th March 2013 to Sunday 8th September 2013
  57 signatures

• Remove the 'luxury car tax' for cars worth over £40,000
  Open from Thursday 17th February 2022 to Wednesday 17th August 2022
  57 signatures

• Critical call on the Government to enact measures to support SMEs in doing business with large UK firms
  Open from Thursday 17th July 2014 to Monday 30th March 2015
  57 signatures

• Eliminate the state pension & benefits to pay for the costs of brexit
  Open from Thursday 8th December 2016 to Tuesday 2nd May 2017
  57 signatures

• Include unpaid carers in the key workers category
  Open from Monday 20th July 2020 to Wednesday 20th January 2021
  57 signatures

• Introdiction Flat rate tax for all taxpayers
  Open from Friday 5th August 2011 to Sunday 5th August 2012
  57 signatures

• Require public sector vehicles be purchased or leased from UK manufacturers
  Open from Tuesday 15th September 2020 to Monday 15th March 2021
  57 signatures

• Introduce tax relief on Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  Open from Monday 12th May 2025 to Wednesday 12th November 2025
  56 signatures

• Fund more student finance support for architecture students
  Opened on Thursday 11th December 2025
  56 signatures so far

• Provide funding to colleges & apprenticeships for eco-community house building
  Open from Friday 26th June 2020 to Saturday 26th December 2020
  56 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

• Make it mandatory for employers to use anonymous applications
  Open from Wednesday 23rd October 2019 to Wednesday 6th November 2019
  55 signatures

• Fund the expansion of the Tyne and Wear Metro line
  Open from Monday 23rd September 2019 to Wednesday 6th November 2019
  55 signatures

• Abolish zero hours contracts
  Open from Wednesday 17th February 2021 to Tuesday 17th August 2021
  55 signatures

• Waiver Charges for Serving Emergency and Forces Personnel on Public Transport.
  Open from Monday 13th January 2014 to Tuesday 13th January 2015
  55 signatures

• Lobby for EU declaration of support of the Falklands as a British Overseas Territory
  Open from Thursday 22nd December 2011 to Saturday 22nd December 2012
  55 signatures

• To pursue the negotiations and construction of the Swansea Tidal Lagoon.
  Open from Friday 27th September 2019 to Wednesday 6th November 2019
  55 signatures

• Increase Annual Leave: Annual leave entitlement increased to 33 days.
  Open from Thursday 20th June 2019 to Wednesday 6th November 2019
  55 signatures

• The advertising of gambling
  Open from Thursday 22nd September 2011 to Saturday 22nd September 2012
  54 signatures

• Localism should provide community power over planning
  Open from Tuesday 2nd October 2012 to Wednesday 2nd October 2013
  54 signatures

• immigration
  Open from Monday 15th August 2011 to Wednesday 15th August 2012
  54 signatures

• Increase the age of dependant children on parents Ancestry Visa from 18 to 21.
  Open from Tuesday 11th August 2020 to Thursday 11th February 2021
  53 signatures

• Institute the People's Charter
  Open from Thursday 17th November 2011 to Saturday 17th November 2012
  53 signatures

• Scrap proposed ban of New Petrol and Diesel vehicles.
  Open from Tuesday 4th January 2022 to Monday 4th July 2022
  53 signatures

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