Prevent Freeholders from passing cladding costs to leaseholders
- Final Signatures: 672
On June 14 2017, 72 people lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire in London. Thousands of people are still living in tower blocks with unsafe cladding over a year later. Over 400 high-rise flats still have the same type of cladding blamed for the rapid spread of the deadly blaze.
Provide free glasses on the NHS, for children with Irlens Syndrome.
- Final Signatures: 1,855
Provide free glasses on the NHS, for children with Irlens Syndrome. This is not actually an optical problem but a problem with the way the brain processes visual information.
Reports have suggested that the chinese government has been placing Uyghur Muslims in “re-education” camps, forcing them to drink alcohol and consume pork, both against the Islamic faith.
These camps are echoes of previous ethnic cleansing and there needs to be ample pressure on China.
The Government responsed to this petition on 14th March 2019 (View Full Response)Currently, GICS have over a year average waiting time for NHS funded hormones, thousands every year applying for hormone and surgery access. Many Transgender people every year die due to prejudice. With increasing funding for NHS GICs, transgender people will be able to get help much more quickly.
We believe it is the parent’s fundamental right to teach their child RSE topics or to at least decide who teaches them and when and how they are taught. We want the right to opt our children out of RSE when it becomes mandatory in Sept 2020.
Debate: This petition was debated in Westminster Hall on 25th February 2019
The Government responsed to this petition on 9th January 2019 (View Full Response)Hold an immediate independence referendum for Scotland (Indy Ref 2)
- Final Signatures: 11,615
In light of recent events we would like an immediate second vote to decide whether Scotland leaves the UK
Make grey squirrel rescue exempt from Invasive Alien Species Order 2019
- Final Signatures: 59,354
As a wildlife rescue unit (Urban Squirrels), based in London and specializing in grey squirrels, we have just received an email from Natural England stating that licences for grey squirrels will not be renewed under the Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019.
The Government responsed to this petition on 26th March 2019 (View Full Response)Have another general election
- Final Signatures: 10,912
The government is dysfunctional. Current policies ranging from Universal Credit, NHS social care to Brexit are causing great dismay. This country deserves better. The government refuses to contribute to parliamentary votes, uses filibustering tactics and lacks transparency. This is not democracy.
The Government responsed to this petition on 22nd May 2019 (View Full Response)Dissolve
- Final Signatures: 2,513
Dissolution is the official term for the end of a Parliament. 25 days after a successful motion to dissolve a general election must be held.
Members of parliament in all parties fear the result of a general election too much to table the motion so we, the people, must demand it to see it happen.
Government to take ownership of The Tamar Bridge & abolish tolls
- Final Signatures: 1,110
The Tamar Bridge between Plymouth & Cornwall forms part of the A38 and is owned by Cornwall Council & Plymouth CC. Just as Severn tolls have been abolished, the current owners are increasing the tolls. This petition asks for the bridge to be central government owned & for the tolls to be abolished.