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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• 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

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

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

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

• Review Handling of Abuse Reports Where Women Are Subject to Counter Allegations
  Opened on Wednesday 11th March 2026
  42 signatures so far

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

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

• Introduce a National Baseline Energy Guarantee for All UK Households
  Opened on Thursday 15th January 2026
  41 signatures so far

• Require train companies to provide an unlimited subscription for train travel
  Open from Friday 24th January 2025 to Thursday 24th July 2025
  41 signatures

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

• Fund free lens thinning and tints for people registered sight impaired
  Open from Friday 24th October 2025 to Friday 24th April 2026
  41 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

• Create a Government-Backed Affordable Vehicle Insurance Option for UK Drivers
  Opened on Friday 5th December 2025
  41 signatures so far

• Funding to reduce long waiting lists for urgent cardiology appointments
  Open from Tuesday 1st April 2025 to Wednesday 1st October 2025
  40 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

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

• Scrap VAT on labour and essential services like trades and childcare
  Opened on Wednesday 12th November 2025
  40 signatures so far

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• Make all MP investments public to help stop personal gain harming the country
  Opened on Friday 24th April 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

• Approve Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) for Serious UK Violent Crime
  Opened on Monday 23rd February 2026
  39 signatures so far

• Request verified numbers of protesters killed, injured and hospitalised in Iran
  Opened on Wednesday 4th March 2026
  38 signatures so far

• 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

• Explore sources of funding for a European Rare Earths Consortium.
  Open from Friday 11th April 2025 to Saturday 11th October 2025
  38 signatures

• Create a single national opt-out from secondary use of personal data
  Opened on Monday 16th March 2026
  38 signatures so far

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

• Call for Fair Treatment of people on private and family life visas
  Open from Tuesday 11th March 2025 to Thursday 11th September 2025
  38 signatures

• Require building of fully wheelchair accessible homes in all new developments
  Opened on Friday 20th March 2026
  37 signatures so far

• 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

• Set legal deadlines for NHS to provide medical reports for DWP tribunals
  Open from Thursday 12th June 2025 to Friday 12th December 2025
  35 signatures

• Build 60 new 800-bed hospitals
  Opened on Monday 26th January 2026
  35 signatures so far

• Require learning disability nurses in all SLD SEND specialist schools
  Opened on Wednesday 29th April 2026
  35 signatures so far

• Put education on allergy & autoimmune based diets on the National Curriculum
  Open from Friday 21st March 2025 to Sunday 21st September 2025
  34 signatures

• Regulate the sale of high sugar, artificially coloured sweets to children
  Open from Wednesday 30th April 2025 to Thursday 30th October 2025
  34 signatures

• 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

• Do not extend ILR qualifying period for RQF6 & below workers
  Opened on Friday 19th December 2025
  33 signatures so far

• 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

• 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

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

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

• Scrap the APD increase for essential regional flights and consider a reform
  Open from Monday 23rd December 2024 to Monday 23rd June 2025
  31 signatures

• Make Laser Eye Surgery Available on the NHS for Adults with Stable Prescriptions
  Opened on Friday 20th March 2026
  31 signatures so far

• 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

• 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

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

• Prioritise the development and launch of UK Gov digital identity by Winter 2026
  Open from Friday 31st October 2025 to Thursday 30th April 2026
  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

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

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

• Fund support for vulnerable parents involved in social services investigations
  Opened on Tuesday 14th April 2026
  30 signatures so far

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

• Mandate review by human before platform bans business account
  Opened on Friday 27th March 2026
  30 signatures so far

• 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

• Ban the display of alcohol by checkouts in supermarkets
  Opened on Thursday 26th March 2026
  28 signatures so far

• Launch an independent review into retail price margins on essential goods
  Opened on Tuesday 5th May 2026
  28 signatures so far

• Reverse the ban on XL Bully dogs
  

• 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

• Tax Relief for Blue Light Workers
  Open from Thursday 3rd April 2025 to Friday 3rd October 2025
  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

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

• Revise the SEND Reforms to retain EHCP beyond Primary>Secondary transition
  Opened on Monday 20th April 2026
  26 signatures so far

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

• Early intervention for overweight children in primary schools
  Opened on Wednesday 1st April 2026
  25 signatures so far

• 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

• 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

• Negotiate exemption to the 90/180 Schengen travel rule for professional drivers
  Opened on Friday 13th February 2026
  24 signatures so far

• 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

• Review and cap increases on Motability advance payments
  Opened on Thursday 30th April 2026
  24 signatures so far

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

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

• Review enforcement of loading area restrictions and penalties
  Opened on Monday 17th November 2025
  23 signatures so far

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

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

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

• Require companies to pay domiciliary care workers for on-call night shifts
  Open from Monday 28th April 2025 to Tuesday 28th October 2025
  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

• 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

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