Petitions tagged with "Essential"

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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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• Close Garden Centres and Nurseries during the Lockdown
  Open from Wednesday 13th January 2021 to Tuesday 13th July 2021
  51 signatures

• Allow employees to deduct living expenses from salary before it’s taxed.
  Opened on Friday 6th December 2024
  51 signatures so far

• Legislate that employers must allow non-essential employees to work from home
  Open from Monday 25th January 2021 to Sunday 25th July 2021
  50 signatures

• Open barber shops and class barbers as key workers
  Open from Wednesday 20th May 2020 to Friday 20th November 2020
  50 signatures

• All types of cleaners to be classed as critical workers
  Open from Tuesday 12th January 2021 to Monday 12th July 2021
  50 signatures

• Fund £500 bonus for Early Years Practitioners in England as key workers
  Open from Wednesday 13th January 2021 to Tuesday 13th July 2021
  48 signatures

• Make all retail except from supermarkets and pharmacies click and collect only
  Open from Thursday 21st January 2021 to Wednesday 21st July 2021
  47 signatures

• Allow shops selling essential baby supplies to open on an appointment basis.
  Open from Thursday 28th May 2020 to Saturday 28th November 2020
  46 signatures

• Require all mobility and cabin scooters to be fitted with seat belts
  Open from Wednesday 4th May 2022 to Friday 18th November 2022
  45 signatures

• Reduce VAT to 5% on Fitness services to help the Fitness industry survive
  Open from Wednesday 28th July 2021 to Friday 28th January 2022
  44 signatures

• Fund an additional year of study for university students
  Open from Wednesday 13th January 2021 to Tuesday 13th July 2021
  44 signatures

• Fund free period hygiene products via the NHS for all who need it
  Opened on Tuesday 7th January 2025
  43 signatures so far

• Give TV Licensing money to our NHS
  Open from Wednesday 27th May 2020 to Friday 27th November 2020
  43 signatures

• Instruct all local Councils to suspend all live planning applications submitted.
  Open from Thursday 30th April 2020 to Friday 30th October 2020
  42 signatures

• Make random drug/alcohol testing mandatory for Members of Parliament
  Open from Thursday 29th April 2021 to Friday 29th October 2021
  42 signatures

• Consider hair loss clinics to be essential businesses during lockdown situations
  Open from Monday 4th January 2021 to Sunday 4th July 2021
  41 signatures

• Open a National Museum dedicated to British BAME history
  Open from Wednesday 19th August 2020 to Friday 19th February 2021
  41 signatures

• Force all electric car chargers to accept credit cards
  Open from Monday 6th September 2021 to Sunday 6th March 2022
  40 signatures

• Ban the sale and use of single use cups
  Open from Friday 4th June 2021 to Saturday 4th December 2021
  39 signatures

• Create a Government fund that accepts public donations to support Ukraine
  Open from Tuesday 1st March 2022 to Thursday 1st September 2022
  39 signatures

• Remove/reduce VAT for low/mid-range personal mobile phones & mobile contracts
  Open from Monday 23rd November 2020 to Sunday 23rd May 2021
  39 signatures

• Add mobile phone & computer retailers/repairers to list of essential businesses
  Open from Thursday 14th May 2020 to Saturday 14th November 2020
  39 signatures

• Extend local authorities' duty to support young people with EHCPs to age 27
  Open from Friday 7th May 2021 to Sunday 7th November 2021
  39 signatures

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

• Provide parents with babies/young kids with a badge for parent and child bays
  Open from Tuesday 13th April 2021 to Wednesday 13th October 2021
  39 signatures

• Extend requirement to close on Christmas Day to all shops for 2020
  Open from Monday 30th November 2020 to Sunday 30th May 2021
  38 signatures

• Remove VAT from all clothes, soap, toilet roll and cleaning products
  Open from Wednesday 18th May 2022 to Friday 2nd December 2022
  38 signatures

• Classify Broadband as an essential utility with greater protections for access
  Open from Wednesday 20th January 2021 to Tuesday 20th July 2021
  37 signatures

• The virtual parliament must remain in place whilst social distancing exists
  Open from Friday 12th June 2020 to Saturday 12th December 2020
  37 signatures

• Review powers for tackling obstructive protesters and their organisers
  Open from Wednesday 24th November 2021 to Tuesday 24th May 2022
  36 signatures

• Regulate dog walking, dog trainers & dog behaviourists
  Open from Tuesday 21st December 2021 to Tuesday 21st June 2022
  36 signatures

• Introduce Fines for Missed GP Appointments
  Opened on Wednesday 18th December 2024
  34 signatures so far

• Give essential and key workers a tax break/refund.
  Open from Tuesday 12th January 2021 to Monday 12th July 2021
  34 signatures

• Introduce a Winter fuel payment for all parents home-schooling during lockdown.
  Open from Thursday 14th January 2021 to Wednesday 14th July 2021
  33 signatures

• Create a national memorial for Key Workers lost to COVID
  Open from Thursday 18th March 2021 to Saturday 18th September 2021
  32 signatures

• Make it law for all Taxi/Cab/Uber vehicles to have internal cameras fitted
  Open from Wednesday 18th August 2021 to Friday 18th February 2022
  32 signatures

• Make Pharmacy staff a priority for covid vaccination
  Open from Thursday 14th January 2021 to Wednesday 14th July 2021
  32 signatures

• Allow Haberdasheries to remain open in Tier 4
  Open from Monday 11th January 2021 to Sunday 11th July 2021
  32 signatures

• Temporarily suspend the 20 hour term time work rule for international students.
  Open from Monday 27th April 2020 to Tuesday 27th October 2020
  32 signatures

• Florists should be classed as essential
  Open from Thursday 12th November 2020 to Wednesday 12th May 2021
  31 signatures

• Fund independent mental health advocates for all informal mental health patients
  Open from Monday 20th September 2021 to Sunday 20th March 2022
  31 signatures

• Automatically trigger a GE if 2 PMs leave office in 1 parliamentary term
  Open from Friday 28th October 2022 to Friday 28th April 2023
  31 signatures

• Decide now to make the 2021 elections all-postal whilst there is still time
  Open from Wednesday 30th December 2020 to Wednesday 30th June 2021
  31 signatures

• Make carbon monoxide and smoke alarms vat exempt.
  Open from Tuesday 11th August 2020 to Thursday 11th February 2021
  31 signatures

• Review NHS 111 service to ensure out of hours medical help is available to all
  Open from Wednesday 21st December 2022 to Wednesday 21st June 2023
  31 signatures

• Free Laser Eye Surgery for curable eyesight conditions NHS
  Open from Monday 11th January 2021 to Sunday 11th July 2021
  30 signatures

• Test all schoolchildren in England weekly for Covid-19
  Open from Tuesday 8th September 2020 to Monday 8th March 2021
  29 signatures

• Reopen schools in August with shorter summer holidays for a transition period
  Open from Friday 5th June 2020 to Saturday 5th December 2020
  29 signatures

• Every Key Worker given official recognition for their work throughout covid-19
  Open from Wednesday 21st July 2021 to Friday 21st January 2022
  29 signatures

• Reinstate the Better Broadband Scheme which ceased in England in December 2019
  Open from Thursday 25th March 2021 to Saturday 25th September 2021
  28 signatures

• Take action to make essential energy (oil/gas/petrol/electric) more affordable
  Open from Thursday 4th August 2022 to Saturday 18th February 2023
  28 signatures

• Require MPs and civil servants report all contact with corporate entities
  Open from Thursday 27th January 2022 to Wednesday 27th July 2022
  27 signatures

• Abolish VAT from Toilet Rolls
  Open from Thursday 7th October 2021 to Thursday 7th April 2022
  26 signatures

• Make sanitary products VAT-free
  Open from Thursday 5th November 2020 to Wednesday 5th May 2021
  26 signatures

• People in chronic pain should be able to access swimming pools during Covid 19
  Open from Tuesday 24th November 2020 to Monday 24th May 2021
  26 signatures

• Fund for all MA and MSc Courses in England
  Open from Monday 21st September 2020 to Sunday 21st March 2021
  26 signatures

• Issue grants to landlords for lost rental income due to Covid-19
  Open from Wednesday 3rd March 2021 to Friday 3rd September 2021
  26 signatures

• Student Finance England loans to be interest free (future and existing)
  Open from Wednesday 14th April 2021 to Thursday 14th October 2021
  26 signatures

• Scrap the APD increase for essential regional flights and consider a reform
  Opened on Monday 23rd December 2024
  25 signatures so far

• Suitable equipment to protect our front-line police officers from COVID-19
  Open from Wednesday 6th May 2020 to Friday 6th November 2020
  25 signatures

• Prohibit transactions in cryptocurrencies in the UK
  Open from Monday 4th April 2022 to Tuesday 18th October 2022
  25 signatures

• Martial Arts Schools should be recognised as essential education.
  Open from Wednesday 30th December 2020 to Wednesday 30th June 2021
  25 signatures

• Fund increased sick pay for community carers during Covid-19 outbreak
  Open from Wednesday 20th January 2021 to Tuesday 20th July 2021
  24 signatures

• End income tax on minimum wage earners during Covid-19 crisis.
  Open from Monday 27th April 2020 to Tuesday 27th October 2020
  24 signatures

• Prevent property management companies charging for documents essential for sales
  Open from Friday 6th August 2021 to Sunday 6th February 2022
  24 signatures

• Make COVID-19 vaccine a requirement for workers who work in other people’s homes
  Open from Friday 30th July 2021 to Sunday 30th January 2022
  24 signatures

• Allow the public to attend inquiry hearings in person while socially distancing
  Open from Monday 14th September 2020 to Sunday 14th March 2021
  23 signatures

• Protect essential workers from contracting and spreading Covid-19.
  Open from Tuesday 28th April 2020 to Wednesday 28th October 2020
  23 signatures

• Increase funding for charities established to prevent Female Genital Mutilation
  Open from Thursday 13th August 2020 to Saturday 13th February 2021
  23 signatures

• Keep libraries open as essential services.
  Open from Wednesday 13th January 2021 to Tuesday 13th July 2021
  23 signatures

• Add Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to the curriculum & fund staff training.
  Open from Thursday 26th August 2021 to Saturday 26th February 2022
  22 signatures

• Reopen driving test centres for essential workers during the second lockdown
  Open from Tuesday 24th November 2020 to Monday 24th May 2021
  22 signatures

• Provide an emergency sports recovery fund to save our clubs from extinction
  

• Re-classify sunscreen products as an essential healthcare item exempt from VAT
  Open from Tuesday 1st December 2020 to Tuesday 1st June 2021
  22 signatures

• Require that 90% of goods sold are essential for businesses to stay open
  Open from Thursday 14th January 2021 to Wednesday 14th July 2021
  21 signatures

• Support the healthcare workers by waiving the university fees they have to pay
  Open from Monday 11th May 2020 to Wednesday 11th November 2020
  21 signatures

• Introduce mandatory training/regulations for private users of jet skis
  Open from Wednesday 1st September 2021 to Tuesday 1st March 2022
  21 signatures

• Provide a package of foods, cleaning products and toiletries to every prisoner
  Open from Thursday 28th May 2020 to Saturday 28th November 2020
  21 signatures

• Keep Bookshops open as an essential business
  Open from Tuesday 5th January 2021 to Monday 5th July 2021
  20 signatures

• Legislate to stop companies from refusing service based on lawful speech
  Open from Friday 22nd January 2021 to Thursday 22nd July 2021
  20 signatures

• Mandatory biannual reapplication for all firearm licences
  Open from Friday 3rd September 2021 to Thursday 3rd March 2022
  20 signatures

• Close pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops to reduce spread of covid19
  Open from Thursday 8th October 2020 to Thursday 8th April 2021
  20 signatures

• Add UK Aid workers of Int NGO's to jobs that qualify for travel exemptions
  Open from Monday 2nd November 2020 to Sunday 2nd May 2021
  19 signatures

• Propose and back a global WTO carbon tax at COP 27
  Open from Thursday 18th November 2021 to Wednesday 18th May 2022
  19 signatures

• Review current rules for zoos and their suitability for the future
  Open from Thursday 30th July 2020 to Saturday 30th January 2021
  19 signatures

• Allow a limited amount of hemp on allotments without a licence
  Open from Monday 21st June 2021 to Tuesday 21st December 2021
  19 signatures

• Prioritise key workers for theory/practical driving tests
  Open from Wednesday 7th April 2021 to Thursday 7th October 2021
  19 signatures

• Make sunscreen more affordable by removing the VAT
  Open from Monday 14th November 2022 to Sunday 14th May 2023
  19 signatures

• Provider Relief Scheme to be extended for education providers due to COVID.
  Open from Monday 4th January 2021 to Sunday 4th July 2021
  19 signatures

• Waive any Income Tax & National Insurance contribution increases for NHS staff.
  Open from Friday 4th September 2020 to Thursday 4th March 2021
  18 signatures

• Fund free dental care for university students
  Open from Friday 9th July 2021 to Sunday 9th January 2022
  18 signatures

• Increase the allowances claimable by jurors
  Open from Friday 23rd September 2022 to Thursday 23rd March 2023
  17 signatures

• Suspend limitations on the number of hours visa holders can work during Covid-19
  Open from Thursday 7th May 2020 to Saturday 7th November 2020
  17 signatures

• Increase fines for breaking Covid-19 regulations to £1000 for first offence
  Open from Thursday 28th May 2020 to Saturday 28th November 2020
  17 signatures

• Government to declare a new annual bank holiday to celebrate essential workers
  Open from Thursday 29th October 2020 to Thursday 29th April 2021
  16 signatures

• Extend NHS coronavirus compensation scheme to all public transport workers
  Open from Monday 28th September 2020 to Sunday 28th March 2021
  16 signatures

• Suspend all sport until there is certainty COVID-19 is under control.
  Open from Friday 10th July 2020 to Sunday 10th January 2021
  16 signatures

• Review availability of places in secure children's homes
  Open from Friday 23rd April 2021 to Saturday 23rd October 2021
  15 signatures

• Drop unnecessary plans for a deeply damaging switch from the CE to UK CA mark
  Open from Wednesday 14th July 2021 to Friday 14th January 2022
  15 signatures

• Remove the VAT on all laptops for all children home learning
  Open from Friday 26th February 2021 to Thursday 26th August 2021
  15 signatures

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