Cap local authority parking fines during the pandemic
- Final Signatures: 46
The amount of parking tickets given out appears to have increased during the COVID19 pandemic. I believe the majority of tickets given out are unjust. Trying to make money at this catastrophic time is unhuman.
Place a trade embargo on products grown on cleared Amazon rainforest land.
- Final Signatures: 69
The Government should not allow products that were grown on land cleared from the Amazon rainforest to be sold in the UK. The Government should send a clear message to Brazil and set an example for other countries of the measures it is willing to take to tackle the most dire crisis of mankind.
Extend the validity for CBT certificates that are expiring or have expired during Tier 4 or national lockdown.
Require CBT, licence, insurance and helmet to ride e-bikes and e-scooters
- Final Signatures: 188
Electric bike and scooter users should have compulsory basic training, be licensed and insured to protect third parties. Helmets should be required by law to protect drivers. This would match requirements for mopeds and light motorcycles.
I want the UK Government to work with the Australian government to ensure that changes to Working Holiday Maker/Youth Mobility schemes, making these available to people aged up to 35, and removing requirements to undertake particular work, to commence on the same date the new FTA comes into force.
Revoke recent changes to the Highway Code
- Final Signatures: 637
The Government should revoke the changes to the Highway Code which into effect on 29/1/22, to allow for more consultation with motoring groups. These changes affects all road users not just pedestrians and cyclists.
Simplify new Customs procedures for EU and Ireland freight import / export
- Final Signatures: 194
Take urgent action to remove at least some of the mountain of red tape from import and export customs procedures. Industry is currently losing £millions because of the late struck deal that cannot be administered properly by hauliers, their clients and HMRC's inland facilities.
Impose restrictions on export to EU of lipids
- Final Signatures: 11
Impose reciprocal restrictions on lipid exports proportionate to EU restrictions on vaccine exports to UK
Implement sanctions against the Nigerian Government and officials
- Final Signatures: 221,258
The Government should explore using the new sanctions regime that allows individuals and entities that violate human rights around the world to be targeted, to impose sanctions on members of the Nigerian government and police force involved in any human rights abuses by the Nigerian police.
Debate: This petition was debated in Westminster Hall on 23rd November 2020
The Government responsed to this petition on 11th November 2020 (View Full Response)The Government voted out a House of Lords amendment to the Trade Bill to give legal protection against allowing any NHS services, or patient data, being included in trade negotiations with other countries.