• Tax deductible childcare costs
    There are a huge number of working families in the UK who spend an exorbitant amount of their income, sometimes up to 50%, on nursery fees alone. This can often result in one parent, usually the mother, simply not returning to work because of the expense. The loss of child benefit and other financial assistance to most working families has not helped. There is little incentive to return to work for many women because of the cost. Childcare costs will only spiral further with the increase in the minimum wage (affecting salaries paid to nursery staff). The government must help these families by providing this tax break.
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    Created by Tammy Knox
  • DVLA Car Tax Scam
    This has created an additional stealth tax for the motorist whereby the DVLA will collect an additional months road tax for every secondhand vehicle sold. In today's advanced society surely an organisation such as one so large and well funded could work out refunds and charges on a daily rate. This is costing the motorist an additional 20 million pounds a year.
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    Created by Chris Getheridge
  • Stop BTs Monoply of Broadband
    BT won't provide any service unless at enormous Profit and will not entertain competition in any form
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    Created by Michael Flanagan
  • Grant a Knighthood to Usain Bolt
    We have a great tradition in this country of granting honours to Commonwealth sporting greats, Sir Garfield Sobers and Viv Richards in West Indian cricket and Sir Graham Henry and Gordon Tietjens in New Zealand rugby for example. At a time when the sport of athletics has been blighted by doping and other scandals, Usain Bolt has been a shining light of clean athletics in a blue riband event. His achievement on Monday morning 15 August 2016 in achieving an unprecedented third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the 100metres final in Rio was outstanding, and he is still likely to achieve medals in the 200 metres and 4x100 metres relay. He has announced that this will be his last Olympic Games. It is time for the UK Government to honour the achievement and outstanding contribution to world sport of this great Olympian and grant him a knighthood in the next Honours List.
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    Created by Hamish Hamilton
  • Allow parents of summer-borns to defer entry easily, as promised.
    There is a huge difference in each LEA's procedure for children being deferred. Currently, in my local authority, you have to provide evidence that it is in the child's best interest. The only evidence they will accept is proof of medical need. I feel, that as a parent, I am capable of and should be responsible for making that decision for my child. It should be about what is right for the individual child and not about making the council's life easy. Promises have been released in the press but nothing has happened since. Councils are not going to change policy without legislation.
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    Created by Laura Oakley
  • OFCOM: please investigate TalkTalk
    People rely on their phone connections and internet. For some people who work from home, they need to get online to earn money to get by. For carers and people for whom it's hard to get around, being connected is a lifeline. TalkTalk lures people in by promising high speeds and low costs. But in practice they deliver poor service. When things go wrong, they have a bad track record of sorting problems out quickly, often leaving people disconnected for weeks at a time. TalkTalk need to improve fast, or be stopped from making promises they don't keep.
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    Created by Hannah Lownsbrough
  • £3.9 BILLION owed by the Duke of Westminster for Death Duties
    Get the Duke of Westminster to pay 40% death duties on the £9 Billion he has just inherited from his father ( the late Duke of Westminster) This will be approx £3.6 BILLION at the curent rate of 40% It will show that the law is the law, rich or poor
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    Created by Neil Mcvey
  • Mandatory mental health classes in schools
    I feel this is important as people needed to be educated on the causes and effects of mental health issues as his could prevent people developing them. I have been personally affect by mental health issues and believe education could of prevented or reduced the severity of them. 1 in 10 children and young people aged 5 - 16 suffer from diagnosable mental health issues, this needs to change and I believe education can help change this. Having experienced the stigma and negative views of mental health issues I do not wish for anyone else to have to suffer it.
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    Created by Amy Craven
  • Secondary school first aid training
    I feel this is important because it could save lives and encourage young people to join the medical profession.
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    Created by Jess Main
  • Save Ealing Town Hall
    This is our heritage and it is a public building Not some councillor's distorted idea that they are entrepreneurs.They are public servants
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    Created by Philip Hurrell
  • Solicitor charging
    It would appear that ordinary high street solicitors are now charging upwards of £200 per hour for simple routine tasks like conveyancing, handling probate for a will. This can very soon eat up all of a modest estate where a person has left debts on their estate or a will is contested or the person dies intestate. This is an obscene amount to charge for routine work which is probably carried out by a paralegal or junior person at the company anyway. I see absolutely no reason for such astronomical fees which I believe should be curbed. £50 per hour is surely more than enough for anyone. A few years ago, in 2005 I successfully defended a claim against me in civil court. My solicitor, a junior, charged me in total around £40,000 at £160 per hour. Costs were not awarded by the court as the other party had secured legal aid. How can this be right? That £160 per hour in 2005 will now be....? I would suggest that legislation should be brought in to curb such excessive charging and the legal profession be made more accountable to the people.
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    Created by Hugh Morgan
  • Stop Child Maintenance Evasion
    If the government are talking abut huge companies using tax havens to evade paying their fair share why are we not talking about child maintenance evasion? This effects so many struggling parents. Even parents who are on benefits need to pay child maintenance, but affluent parents evade paying by 'starting up their own business'. On many occasions this is a tactical move and we need to protect our children by changing the 'no child maintenance' requirement for parents who have left their salaried job to start their own business and therefore have to pay ZERO. Mothers and fathers will understand this legal loophole in which they lawfully do not receive child maintenance from their child's non-resident parent. By starting up their own business and hiding their money in someone else's account (i.e their partners) and not putting their earnings through HMRC the Child Maintenace Service say they do not have to pay maintenance due to not having a taxable income or savings. The government need a different method of assessing maintenance to plug this hole. Our children's lives should be supported by both parents and if the non-resident parent does not morally believe they should then the government should legally require them to.
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    Created by Steph Hillier