Paula Barker

Status	Signatures	Title
Open	408 of 20,934 (1.95%)	Make access to food a legal right - no one in the UK should go hungry
Open	61 of 10,440 (0.58%)	Extend the 12-month period drivers can use non-GB driving licences
Open	3,456 of 620,711 (0.56%)	Prevent gyms closing due to a spike in Covid 19 cases Gov Responded - 28 Oct 2020
Open	52 of 10,205 (0.51%)	Give students the option to take exams or receive assessed grades for 2020/21
Open	473 of 104,667 (0.45%)	Give government workers a fair pay rise Gov Responded - 16 Oct 2020

Status	Signatures	Title
Open	3,456 of 620,711 (0.56%)	Prevent gyms closing due to a spike in Covid 19 cases Gov Responded - 28 Oct 2020
Open	3,091 of 1,109,355 (0.28%)	End child food poverty – no child should be going hungry Gov Responded - 11 Nov 2020
Open	1,175 of 560,980 (0.21%)	Reduce University student tuition fees from £9250 to £3000
Open	667 of 170,057 (0.39%)	Lower university tuition fees for students until online teaching ends Gov Responded - 30 Oct 2020
Open	637 of 268,281 (0.24%)	Require universities to partially refund tuition fees for 20/21 due to Covid-19 Gov Responded - 24 Sep 2020

Current Signatures	Final Signatures	Title	Petition Deadline
104,667 c. 503 added daily	105,906 (Estimated)	Give government workers a fair pay rise Sign this petition Gov Responded - 16 Oct 2020 Debated on - 14 Dec 2020 View Paula Barker's petition debate contributions	20 Jan 2021 closes in 2 days, 10 hours
During the pandemic government workers have delivered vital public services and kept our country safe and secure. After ten years in which the real value of civil service pay has fallen, many face hardship. The Government must start to restore the real value of their pay with a 10% increase in 2020.
146,351 Petition Closed		Give all key workers a 100% tax and Nat. Ins. holiday through COVID-19 crisis Gov Responded - 27 Apr 2020 Debated on - 14 Dec 2020 View Paula Barker's petition debate contributions	1 Oct 2020 closed 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The government is helping private firms to protect jobs by paying up to 80% of staff wages through this crisis. If it can do this why can it not help key workers who will be putting themselves/their families at risk and working extra hard under extremely challenging and unprecedented circumstances.

Date Tabled	Title	Signatures
6 Oct 2020	Paula Barker signed this EDM on Wednesday 7th October 2020 Meeting the communication needs and preferences of people with hearing loss and deafness during the covid-19 outbreak Tabled by: Olivia Blake (Labour - Sheffield, Hallam) That this House recognises that the use of opaque face masks can act as a barrier to communication for the 12 million people with hearing loss across the UK; welcomes the recent approval of a transparent mask by the Department of Health and Social Care; asks the Government to issue …	14 signatures (Most recent: 8 Oct 2020) Signatures by party: Labour: 10 Conservative: 2 Independent: 1 Democratic Unionist Party: 1
24 Sep 2020	Paula Barker signed this EDM on Wednesday 7th October 2020 County lines and child criminal exploitation Tabled by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington) That this House is alarmed at the expansion of county lines networks, recently exacerbated by covid-19; calls for clarification of laws to ensure that all young people who are groomed, coerced and controlled into committing crime are recognised as victims of trafficking and exploitation; advocates the adoption of a new …	21 signatures (Most recent: 8 Oct 2020) Signatures by party: Labour: 10 Conservative: 3 Scottish National Party: 2 Plaid Cymru: 2 Independent: 2 Democratic Unionist Party: 1 Green Party: 1

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National Minimum Wage Bill 2019-21

Tabled: 5th February 2020

Paula Barker (Labour - Liverpool, Wavertree)
Private Members' Bill
Ballot Bill

A Bill to make provision about the national minimum wage; and for connected purposes.

Last Event - 1st reading: House of Commons
Wednesday 5th February 2020

Next Event - 2nd reading: House of Commons
Date TBA

Bill Text - Explanatory Note - No debates - Official Page