Most-signed open petitions
The ten open petitions to the UK Government and Parliament with the most signatures. Signature counts are live and keep rising, so they are checked within a tolerance.
Signatures on the top open petition
133,803
Live count · Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks
Verified against source, 1 November 2026, 12:16 UTCSource: UK Parliament – Petitions Committee. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
Data table
10 rows
| Category | Signatures |
|---|---|
| Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks (#767687) | 133,803 |
| End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately (#769589) | 125,300 |
| Reduce the state pension age to 65 for all (#780269) | 111,478 |
| Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK (#773633) | 86,419 |
| Make statutory maternity pay 90% of wage for first 12 weeks & minimum wage after (#779259) | 79,558 |
| Make catapult attacks against animals a standalone criminal offence (#777710) | 74,465 |
| Launch a public inquiry into the UK's role in Israeli operations in Gaza (#783252) | 59,200 |
| Provide lifelong vet care and financial support for retired service animals (#769616) | 55,581 |
| Permanent driving ban on intoxicated drivers guilty of causing death (#771401) | 55,498 |
| Ensure new sewage treatment infrastructure meets higher standards as in the EU (#763721) | 50,561 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- UK Parliament – Petitions Committee
- Check it yourself
- https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open
- Licence
- Open Parliament Licence v3.0 – Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 1 November 2026, 12:15 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions.json?state=open&page=1SHA-256 900b79f36b5d543761c74a2f945681d0195f6cc92f3b9ee7439a1a9f1b6ad4ee · 4,674 bytes
- https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions.json?state=open&page=2SHA-256 6c0d7731cbd83ab984d898a5698c9d495df70077a06ab292d76cf43166150515 · 4,628 bytes
- https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions.json?state=open&page=3SHA-256 374e6e159e6966b567a2f9c8ab6b86b4bfe09da65d3bbec29a335a8d1f011aa9 · 4,671 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 1 November 2026, 12:16 UTC Run at 1 November 2026, 12:16 UTC; 10 of 10 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | UK Parliament – Petitions Committee; Open Parliament Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-01T12:15:51Z; 3 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 3 of 3 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 10 of 10 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 10 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 10 of 10 figures match within the stated tolerance after downloading 3 source file(s) again (1 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | Each petition's own record agrees | 10 of 10 counts agree with each petition's own page data (/petitions/<id>.json) |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Counts move by the minute. Verification passes when the live count is no lower than the stored one and no more than 5% higher.
- The hub's copy of each page of the list keeps each petition's number, title, state and signatures: the service also names who started it, which the hub does not keep. The live check keeps the same.