The parliamentary petitions with the most signatures from the Forest of Dean constituency have been revealed.
British citizens or UK residents can create parliamentary petitions online, with the Petitions Committee checking they meet the standards to be published.
Only citizens and residents can sign these petitions and are required to provide a valid UK postcode and verify their email.
The Government must respond to petitions that gain 10,000 signatures.
And when 100,000 signatures are reached, the Government will debate the issue. However, MPs can consider a petition for debate before it reaches this target.
As of October 31, figures from the UK Government and Parliament show the most popular active petitions in Forest of Dean were:
• Do not introduce Digital ID cards — 4,422 out of 2,930,106 total signatures
• Call an immediate general election — 1,600 out of 1,004,558 total signatures
• Introduce offshore detention/mass deportation for illegal migrants — 769 out of 489,875 total signatures
• Protect Northern Ireland Veterans from Prosecutions — 460 out of 209,306 total signatures
• Mandatory collection and publication of certain child sexual offender data — 395 out of 258,077 total signatures
• Make it an offence for a person's dog to kill another pet and prosecute owners — 311 out of 45,781 total signatures
• Review possible penalties for social media posts, including the use of prison — 274 out of 190,288 total signatures
• Make Play and Continuous Provision statutory in England's Key Stage 1 Curriculum — 260 out of 100,903 total signatures
• Give the British Public the Right to Vote No Confidence in the Government — 169 out of 79,902 total signatures
• Reduce the maximum noise level for consumer fireworks from 120 to 90 decibels — 164 out of 69,924 total signatures
Petitions with less than 25 signatures are excluded.




