Our Woodcock petition passes 51,000 signatures

Our Woodcock petition has passed 50,000 signatures (and 51,000) so we’re over half of the way to gaining a Westminster Hall debate on the subject. And every signature increases the pressure on DEFRA to do something sensible.

Please share the petition link – https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/619615 – you can help move things along even faster. Thank you.

We don’t assume that we will get to 100,000 signatures – but that is definitely our aim. Thank you for your support so far.

And we now have the RSPB supporting this petition too – see their blog today – click here. Thank you RSPB!

We’ve been listing leading constituencies here now and again. We’ve listed those constituencies with more than 100 signatures – but that is now a very long list indeed (over 180 constiuencies) so we are changing tack. This time we are listing those constituencies with 154+ signatures. Why at least 154? Seems an odd number? Well, 100,000 signatures, divided across 650 constituencies means that the average constituency has to produce 154 signatures.

1. 1. North Norfolk, Duncan Baker MP – 248 signatures
   2. West Dorset, Chris Loder MP – 241 signatures
   3. Derbyshire Dales, Sarah Dines MP – 225 signatures
   4. Suffolk Coastal, Therese Coffey MP – 221 signatures
   5. St Ives, Derek Thomas MP – 211 signatures
   6. Stroud, Siobhan Baillie MP – 210 signatures
   7. Somerton and Frome, David Warburton MP – 209 signatures
   8. Torridge and West Devon, Geoffrey Cox MP – 209 signatures
   9. Sheffield Hallam, Olivia Blake MP – 208 signatures
   10. South Norfolk, Richard Bacon MP – 202 signatures
   11. Wells, James Heappey MP – 198 signatures
   12. Isle of Wight, Bob Seely MP – 196 signatures
   13. Thirsk and Malton, Kevin Hollinrake MP – 195 signatures
   14. Lewes, Maria Caulfield MP – 194 signatures
   15. Central Devon, Mel Stride MP – 185 signatures
   16. Brighton Pavilion, Caroline Lucas MP, 185 signatures
   17. Mid Norfolk, George Freeman MP – 183 signatures
   18. Skipton and Ripon, Julian Smith MP – 183 signatures
   19. Broadland, Jerome Mayhew MP – 180 signatures
   20. North Herefordshire, Bill Wiggin MP – 179 signatures
   21. Brecon and Radnorshire, Fay Jones MP – 178 signatures
   22. High Peak, Robert Largan MP – 178 signatures
   23. Ceredigion, Ben Lake MP – 178 signatures
   24. Arundel and South Downs, Andrew Griffith MP – 177 signatures
   25. Totnes, Anthony Mangnall MP – 177 signatures
   26. Macclesfield, David Rutley MP – 174 signatures
   27. Ross, Skye and Lochaber,  Ian Blackford MP – 174 signatures
   28. Westmorland and Lonsdale, Tim Farron MP – 174 signatures
   29. West Worcestershire, Harriet Baldwin MP – 173 signatures
   30. South Cambridgeshire, Anthony Browne MP – 172 signatures
   31. Norwich S, Clive Lewis MP – 168 signatures
   32. New Forest East, Julian Lewis MP – 167 signatures
   33. Ludlow, Philip Dunne MP– 167 signatures
   34. New Forest West, Desmond Swayne MP – 165 signatures
   35. South East Cambridgeshire, Lucy Fraser MP – 165 signatures
   36. Bridgwater & W Somerset, Ian Liddell-Grainger MP – 164 signatures
   37. Rutland and Melton, Alicia Kearns MP – 163 signatures
   38. East Devon, Simon Jupp MP – 163 signatures
   39. Bristol West, Thangam Debonnaire MP – 161 signatures
   40. Hexham, Guy Opperman MP – 160 signatures
   41. Truro and Falmouth, Cherilyn Mackrory MP – 159 signatures
   42. Monmouth, David Davies MP – 159 signatures
   43. North Cornwall, Scott Mann MP – 157 signatures
   44. Penrith and the Border, Neil Hudson MP – 157 signatures
   45. Forest of Dean, Mark Harper MP – 157 signatures
   46. Chichester, Gillian Keegan MP – 156 signatures
   47. North Somerset, Liam Fox MP – 156 signatures

Westminster Parliament petitions run for 6 months, and we still have three and a half months to go – and we’re over half way there. But we think it will be a struggle to reach 100,000. We need your help – not just in signing the petition yourself but in finding a few others to sign it too. Every signature counts, whether it is the 7th in Tyrone or the 249th in North Norfolk.