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

• Provide immediate funding to support food banks
  Open from Monday 21st November 2022 to Sunday 21st May 2023
  53 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

• Cut alcohol duty and VAT for pubs and restaurants & consider new bank holiday
  Opened on Wednesday 8th April 2026
  52 signatures so far

• Move the Westminster Government at least 100 miles further North, permanently.
  Open from Sunday 20th March 2016 to Tuesday 20th September 2016
  52 signatures

• Add Zambia to the UK list of quarantine-exempt countries.
  Open from Wednesday 23rd September 2020 to Tuesday 23rd March 2021
  52 signatures

• Hold a referendum for legalising and decriminalising marijuana
  Open from Monday 16th May 2016 to Wednesday 16th November 2016
  52 signatures

• Introduce the Scottish system for house buying to the rest of the UK
  Open from Monday 27th January 2014 to Tuesday 27th January 2015
  52 signatures

• Remove unnecessary traffic lights from roundabouts on the A27
  Open from Tuesday 26th January 2016 to Tuesday 26th July 2016
  52 signatures

• Ban people on taxpayer funded benefits from getting tattoos or piercings
  Opened on Monday 24th November 2025
  52 signatures so far

• Give all children born in the UK after 1 Jan 1983 rights to British citizenship
  Open from Thursday 15th April 2021 to Friday 15th October 2021
  51 signatures

• Reinstate tax-free shopping for international visitors to the UK
  Open from Tuesday 19th August 2025 to Thursday 19th February 2026
  51 signatures

• Apply to join the European Free Trade Agreement (EFTA)
  Open from Thursday 14th April 2022 to Friday 28th October 2022
  51 signatures

• Grant Right to Work for Asylum Seekers waiting 3+years for Home Office decision
  Open from Wednesday 1st February 2017 to Tuesday 2nd May 2017
  50 signatures

• Apply animal welfare laws to imported meat
  Open from Tuesday 12th June 2012 to Wednesday 12th June 2013
  50 signatures

• Introduce a "France style" repair and longevity label on electronic products.
  Open from Friday 18th December 2020 to Friday 18th June 2021
  50 signatures

• Increase funding to the NHS to recruit enough staff, fund beds and equipment
  Open from Wednesday 30th December 2020 to Wednesday 30th June 2021
  50 signatures

• Make a bank holiday in between August bank holiday and Christmas,
  Open from Friday 5th July 2019 to Wednesday 6th November 2019
  50 signatures

• Fund free prescriptions and eye tests for carers
  Open from Thursday 13th February 2025 to Wednesday 13th August 2025
  49 signatures

• Mandate Local Hiring and Restrict Offshore Hiring of workers
  Open from Monday 30th June 2025 to Tuesday 30th December 2025
  49 signatures

• Grant an amnesty for undocumented migrants after 10 years
  Open from Monday 7th March 2022 to Wednesday 7th September 2022
  49 signatures

• Suspend International Aid
  Open from Monday 11th February 2013 to Tuesday 11th February 2014
  48 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

• 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

• Do not invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty for five years
  Open from Friday 1st July 2016 to Sunday 1st January 2017
  48 signatures

• A call for the UK Government to remove tax disincentives for workplace health support to manage psychosocial risks
  Open from Wednesday 7th November 2012 to Thursday 7th November 2013
  47 signatures

• Negotiate full membership of the future Erasmus+ education and youth programme
  Open from Tuesday 10th March 2020 to Thursday 10th September 2020
  47 signatures

• Tax breaks for Arts subject tuition, for school age children.
  Open from Tuesday 26th July 2016 to Thursday 26th January 2017
  47 signatures

• Move the Standard Personal Allowance from £12,570, to £25,000 a year.
  Open from Tuesday 1st November 2022 to Monday 1st May 2023
  47 signatures

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

• Act on packaging waste: incentivise a circular economy now.
  Open from Thursday 30th May 2019 to Wednesday 6th November 2019
  47 signatures

• Introduce a maximum wage as a factor of the lowest paid employee's wage.
  Open from Thursday 21st September 2017 to Wednesday 21st March 2018
  46 signatures

• Adapt and Adopt Italy's Marcora Law and Mutualistic Fund Scheme
  Open from Wednesday 22nd July 2020 to Friday 22nd January 2021
  46 signatures

• Hold COBR meetings to address the climate emergency
  Open from Tuesday 30th November 2021 to Monday 30th May 2022
  46 signatures

• Don't ease the lockdown until at least 60-70% of the population is vaccinated.
  Open from Wednesday 24th February 2021 to Tuesday 24th August 2021
  46 signatures

• Seek to improve the safety and ecological-soundness of pesticide use globally
  Open from Friday 21st August 2020 to Sunday 21st February 2021
  46 signatures

• Introduce a Singapore style additional stamp duty for overseas buyers in London.
  Open from Wednesday 17th February 2016 to Wednesday 17th August 2016
  46 signatures

• Reduce the queues at the Dartford Tunnel / QE2 Bridge (M25 between junctions 31 - 1a)
  Open from Thursday 4th August 2011 to Saturday 4th August 2012
  46 signatures

• New fund for councils to support High Street regeneration
  Opened on Friday 8th May 2026
  46 signatures so far

• Scrap Sunday Trading Laws
  Open from Monday 22nd November 2021 to Sunday 22nd May 2022
  45 signatures

• Enhance NI with a secure biometric ID to protect citizens from identity theft
  Open from Friday 26th September 2025 to Thursday 26th March 2026
  45 signatures

• Fine food delivery companies that fail to ensure their cyclists use lights
  Open from Thursday 6th February 2025 to Wednesday 6th August 2025
  45 signatures

• Please give every child in England the opportunity to study Classics.
  Open from Monday 26th March 2018 to Wednesday 26th September 2018
  45 signatures

• Restrict Government support for Covid-19 to dividend-paying companies
  Open from Friday 17th April 2020 to Saturday 17th October 2020
  45 signatures

• Foreign Aid given in UK manufactured goods instead of cash
  Open from Monday 8th April 2013 to Tuesday 8th April 2014
  45 signatures

• Allow all UK Citizens to pay "Home fee status" university fees after Dec 2020
  Open from Wednesday 30th December 2020 to Wednesday 30th June 2021
  45 signatures

• Allow asylum seekers to work & create a 5-year ILR route for asylum seekers
  Opened on Monday 26th January 2026
  45 signatures so far

• All loans should come from savings: High Street Banks should not be allowed to create money from nothing by typing numbers into a computer.
  Open from Tuesday 22nd April 2014 to Monday 30th March 2015
  45 signatures

• 29th February - Leap Year Bank Holiday
  Open from Monday 9th January 2012 to Monday 9th July 2012
  45 signatures

• Introduce renewable temporary stay for anyone who has been in UK for 14 years
  Open from Friday 11th May 2018 to Sunday 11th November 2018
  45 signatures

• Form a dedicated recovery/response unit on the QE2 bridge/dartford crossing/A282
  Open from Wednesday 8th November 2017 to Tuesday 8th May 2018
  45 signatures

• Cancel HS2 saving £85bn; Order 20 Type 45 destroyers from northern shipyards.
  Open from Tuesday 30th July 2019 to Wednesday 6th November 2019
  44 signatures

• Prohibit transport workers from strike action
  Open from Monday 29th September 2025 to Sunday 29th March 2026
  44 signatures

• 40p fuel duty cut to reinvigorate U.K.
  Open from Thursday 17th November 2011 to Saturday 17th November 2012
  44 signatures

• Increase the Covid-19 trading curfew from 10pm to 1am in December
  Open from Thursday 22nd October 2020 to Thursday 22nd April 2021
  44 signatures

• Provide more funding for children with SEN in schools
  Opened on Thursday 18th December 2025
  44 signatures so far

• Ban the sale and use of all cigarettes (including e-cigarettes) by 2030.
  Open from Wednesday 29th April 2020 to Thursday 29th October 2020
  44 signatures

• Provide more direct investment in nuclear new build projects in the U.K.
  Open from Tuesday 29th January 2019 to Monday 29th July 2019
  44 signatures

• Would like to see petrol at cost Price for the Offshore work force
  Open from Tuesday 10th December 2013 to Wednesday 10th December 2014
  44 signatures

• Scrap child benefit and introduce universal free childcare for every family
  Opened on Monday 29th December 2025
  44 signatures so far

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

• Remove GDPR from UK law as soon as we leave the EU in March 2019.
  Open from Monday 18th June 2018 to Tuesday 18th December 2018
  43 signatures

• Increase the number of Bank Holidays/Public Holidays
  Open from Tuesday 29th December 2020 to Tuesday 29th June 2021
  43 signatures

• Establishment of an elected Yorkshire council with devolved powers from Westminster.
  Open from Tuesday 16th September 2014 to Monday 30th March 2015
  43 signatures

• Mandate Inter-Network Mobile Phone Roaming
  Open from Monday 9th January 2012 to Wednesday 9th January 2013
  43 signatures

• Make June 25th. 2021 an "Australian Christmas" bank holiday.
  Open from Wednesday 28th October 2020 to Wednesday 28th April 2021
  43 signatures

• Legalisation of drugs that have been proven to be safer than tobacco and alcohol
  Open from Wednesday 18th January 2012 to Friday 18th January 2013
  42 signatures

• Oppose Proposed Changes to Copyright 'Orphan' Works
  Open from Monday 9th July 2012 to Wednesday 9th January 2013
  42 signatures

• Fair Rent
  Open from Friday 2nd September 2011 to Sunday 2nd September 2012
  42 signatures

• Provide funding to increase police presence from midnight till 6am
  Open from Monday 31st March 2025 to Tuesday 30th September 2025
  42 signatures

• A four day working week
  Open from Tuesday 17th December 2013 to Wednesday 17th December 2014
  42 signatures

• Boost the UK economy & reduce unemployment by reducing corporation tax
  Open from Wednesday 8th January 2025 to Tuesday 8th July 2025
  42 signatures

• International Students should be granted 4 year Post Study work visa.
  Open from Wednesday 16th September 2020 to Tuesday 16th March 2021
  42 signatures

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

• The UK should rejoin the European Free Trade Association as soon as possible.
  Open from Friday 1st July 2016 to Sunday 1st January 2017
  42 signatures

• Create a compensation scheme for businesses affected by rail strikes
  Open from Tuesday 18th March 2025 to Thursday 18th September 2025
  42 signatures

• Support UK innovation & reform copyright law to curb tech giants
  Opened on Wednesday 29th April 2026
  41 signatures so far

• Change the official units of measurement from Metric back to Imperial
  Open from Wednesday 29th July 2020 to Friday 29th January 2021
  41 signatures

• Free Universal Childcare
  Open from Tuesday 13th September 2011 to Thursday 13th September 2012
  41 signatures

• Refuse UK entry to non-UK residents who do not have a COVID-19 vaccine passport.
  Open from Monday 15th March 2021 to Wednesday 15th September 2021
  41 signatures

• £1000 for every man, woman and child in the UK. To be spent within 30 days to really stimulate the economy.
  Open from Friday 10th February 2012 to Thursday 10th May 2012
  41 signatures

• Establish a list of acredited Business Consultants/Mentor organisations.
  Open from Tuesday 1st November 2016 to Monday 1st May 2017
  40 signatures

• Require pension schemes to offer the option to invest in UK companies only
  Open from Wednesday 30th April 2025 to Thursday 30th October 2025
  40 signatures

• Seek cross-party agreement on policy and funding for the NHS and social care
  Open from Thursday 12th January 2023 to Wednesday 12th July 2023
  40 signatures

• Have one exam board.
  Open from Tuesday 23rd April 2019 to Wednesday 23rd October 2019
  40 signatures

• Ban councils interfering and ruining major transport routes with traffic calming schemes and lane reductions.
  Open from Wednesday 12th October 2011 to Friday 12th October 2012
  40 signatures

• Fixed-rate low-interest government backed loan up to £20,000 for every UK adult
  Open from Monday 18th May 2020 to Wednesday 18th November 2020
  40 signatures

• Make Business Rates for the UK Manufacturing Industry free for 2020
  Open from Tuesday 19th May 2020 to Thursday 19th November 2020
  39 signatures

• Reverse the April 2026 dividend tax rise and review its impact on SMEs
  Opened on Wednesday 14th January 2026
  39 signatures so far

• Re-open local & small businesses BEFORE larger corporations after lockdown
  Open from Thursday 28th May 2020 to Saturday 28th November 2020
  39 signatures

• Review laws around flying drones above and near all ports
  Opened on Monday 26th January 2026
  39 signatures so far

• Form a government of national unity to extend article 50 & call an election.
  Open from Friday 4th October 2019 to Wednesday 6th November 2019
  39 signatures

• Abolish APD Tax ( Air Passenger Duty )
  Open from Monday 5th December 2011 to Wednesday 5th December 2012
  39 signatures

• Raise minimum wage to £10.50 for 25+, To comply with inflation and living costs
  Open from Tuesday 19th January 2021 to Monday 19th July 2021
  39 signatures

• Cut the standard VAT rate from 20% to 12.5% to encourage economic growth
  Open from Wednesday 5th October 2022 to Wednesday 5th April 2023
  38 signatures

• Suspension of the DFID and the suspension of foreign aid for 12 months
  Open from Thursday 20th September 2012 to Friday 20th September 2013
  38 signatures

• Altenative use for HS2 finance
  Open from Monday 18th February 2013 to Tuesday 18th February 2014
  38 signatures

• NHS £8 Billion by 2020. A full and honest answer; where will it come from?
  Open from Tuesday 21st July 2015 to Thursday 21st January 2016
  38 signatures

• Ask the G20 to close Tax Avoidance loopholes and Tax Havens
  Open from Monday 23rd January 2012 to Wednesday 23rd January 2013
  38 signatures

• Seek to extend Brexit transition to ensure effective Covid-19 vaccines movement
  Open from Monday 30th November 2020 to Sunday 30th May 2021
  38 signatures

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