The petitions process is one of the main ways the public can engage with and influence the work of the Senedd.
Use of the Senedd’s petitions system has grown steadily since it was introduced in 2007. In 2022, 83 new petitions were considered by the Senedd’s Petitions Committee.
Each petition with more than 250 signatures is considered by the Senedd’s Petitions Committee.
Senedd Research provides the Committee with a research brief to inform its consideration of each petition. You can find a collection of those research briefs below.
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Agriculture, forestry and food
- Remove the requirement for farmers to have at least 10% tree cover to access the new Sustainable Farming Scheme
- Stop all subsidies on food in the Senedd and for Welsh Government staff in general
- Ensure that publicly procured foods in Wales are never exclusively vegan or vegetarian
- Scrap the ‘Universal Actions’ and payment reductions in the proposed Sustainable Farming Scheme
Animal welfare
Children and young people
Education and skills
- Empowering Parental Choice: Opt-Out Rights and Inclusive Involvement in the RSE Program
- Reform of the additional learning needs Code of Wales 2021
- Reconsider cuts to Postgraduate funding and increase Doctoral Loans to match UKRI Stipend
- Financial penalties for Local Education Authorities who do not comply with timeframes for ALN
- Withdraw plans to change the structure of the school year
- Extend Universal Free School Meals to secondary schools
- Meat-free Monday in every school in Wales
- Support deaf children by making a financial commitment to restoring Teacher of the Deaf numbers
- Grant BN(O) Hong Kong students home fee status after three years of residence
- Continue to fund school police officers who educate children and support schools
Environment
- Fund the removal of quarry rocks and the restoration of sand and groynes to Llandudno North Shore
- Ban Balloon Releases
- To act to increase the effectiveness of Natural Resources Wales in halting pollution on the Teifi
- Ban fireworks from shops
- Stop the flooding in Caenant Terrace, Skewen NOW!
- Stop Natural Resources Wales closing the visitor centre at Ynyslas National Nature Reserve
- Stop pollution at Watchtower Bay and Ogmore by Sea
- Oak tree at the Gate of the Dead, should be given statutory protection by Cadw, as an ancient tree
- Designate the Tywi Valley as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)
- Protect our wildlife...ban plastic grass in Wales!
- Comprehensively review NRW and its failure to deliver its statutory obligations to protect Wales
- Scrap all Welsh Government policies from Agenda 21/Agenda 2030/Sustainable Development including Net Zero
Equality and human rights
Health
- Introduce a vape licence for dedicated vape shops
- Introduce an at-home smear test option in Wales
- Health Education & Improvement Wales to make PMDD a mandatory CPD module in postgrad medical teaching
- Fair and Adequate Resourcing of General Practice in Wales
- We want and need a Mental Health unit for men in North Wales with beds
- Introduce legislation where it is mandatory to have an defibrillator in workplaces and sport clubs
- Establish a Welsh under 18 gender service in Wales for Welsh children and young people asap
- A Beacon of Hope at Risk: Please Support Bronllys Well-Being Community Hub!
- Women of North Wales have the right to have a Menopause Services/Clinic in Ysbyty Gwynedd
- Calling Welsh Government to provide urgent mental health support for New Dads
- Women of North Wales have the right to have a Menopause Services/Clinic in Ysbyty Gwynedd
- We’re calling on the Welsh Government to commit to implementing targeted lung cancer screening
- Welsh Government to take action to protect people from airborne infections in health care settings
- Allow Welsh families who have experienced Baby loss before 24 weeks to obtain baby loss certificate
- Outlaw Ambulances from being used as extra beds for Hospitals
- Instruct NHS Wales to add Adenomyosis to its 111 A-Z webpages
- Stop the detention of learning disabled and autistic children, young people and adults in hospitals
- Make menopause a mandatory part of the curriculum for all healthcare sciences and medical students
Housing
Local government
Planning
Senedd procedures
- Introduce a way for constituents to vote out their MS before the end of their term
- I oppose the Welsh Government "Senedd Reform Bill", published 18 September 2023, becoming law
- Senedd Reform Bill to be amended to include provisions for constituency approval of MS pay increases
- Reduce Members of the Senedd’s expenses bill
- We feel there should be a Referendum before the Senedd has a further 36 members
- Call for an early Senedd election
- The people of Wales require a public inquiry into the £200,000 donation made to Vaughan Gething
Sport and recreation
Transport
- Reject all plans for Road User Payments, Congestion Zones and Workplace Parking Levies in Wales
- Introduce a 30mph limit on the trunk road through the villages of Eglwys Fach and Ffwrnais
- Hold an unbiased survey of the residents who live in the 20mph speed limit pilot scheme areas
- Make safe the access to the Secret Garden A4042 Goytre Fawr for both pedestrians and vehicles
- We want the Welsh Government to rescind and remove the disastrous 20mph law
- We want the Welsh Government to keep the excellent 20mph law
- Scrap the 50mph limits on the M4 around Newport and Swansea and on the A470 around Pontypridd
- Increase the speed limit on the M4 back to 70mph
- Brynglas Tunnels M4 South Wales relief road to be put into action
- Hold a public poll on whether to build the M4 Relief Road, then implement the result immediately
- Reinstate the 552 Cardi Bach coastal bus service in South Ceredigion!
- Install traffic lights at the McDonald’s Pontypool roundabout
- Cease all further planning for road charging in Wales
- Revoke Wales' National Transport Delivery Plan 2022 to 2027
- Create a sustainable traffic plan for the Rhiangoll Valley
- Rescind the 20mph limit on TRA4076 at Johnston Pembrokeshire
- We ask the Welsh Government to reverse its decision to stop T2 buses calling at Garndolbenmaen
- Install a roundabout, not traffic lights, at fatal Nash Junction, Pembrokeshire
- Hold a Wales-wide Public Poll to establish the true level of public support for the 20mph limit
- Start a public enquiry into to the reasons, justification and evidence for 20mph
- Improve vital late night public transport infrastructure in South and South West Wales
- Urgently improve the safety of the A458, Middletown, Powys in light of continuous dangerous driving
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