Our Woodcock petition passes 36,000 signatures

Our Woodcock petition has passed 36,000 signatures two days after the shooting season opened in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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

The leading constituencies for support, so far, are as follows (all those with 100+ signatures). As expected, they are mostly Conservative rural constituencies, but signatures are very welcome from anywhere and anyone. The number of constituencies in this list has almost doubled since Friday.

1. North Norfolk, Duncan Baker MP – 176 signatures
2. West Dorset, Chris Loder MP – 175 signatures
3. Derbyshire Dales, Sarah Dines MP – 172 signatures
4. Sheffield Hallam, Olivia Blake MP – 165 signatures
5. Torridge and West Devon, Geoffrey Cox MP – 161 signatures
6. Suffolk Coastal, Therese Coffey MP – 161 signatures
7. Somerton and Frome, David Warburton MP – 160 signatures
8. South Norfolk, Richard Bacon MP – 158 signatures
9. Stroud, Siobhan Baillie MP – 157 signatures
10. Thirsk and Malton, Kevin Hollinrake MP – 152 signatures
11. Wells, James Heappey MP – 149 signatures
12. St Ives, Derek Thomas MP – 144 signatures
13. Skipton and Ripon, Julian Smith MP – 143 signatures
14. Lewes, Maria Caulfield MP – 141 signatures
15. Westmorland and Lonsdale, Tim Farron MP – 139 signatures
16. Arundel and South Downs, Andrew Griffith MP – 135 signatures
17. North Herefordshire, Bill Wiggin MP – 132 signatures
18. Central Devon, Mel Stride MP – 131 signatures
19. Isle of Wight, Bob Seely MP – 131 signatures
20. Macclesfield, David Rutley MP – 131 signatures
21. Brighton Pavilion, Caroline Lucas MP, 131 signatures
22. New Forest East, Julian Lewis MP – 130 signatures
23. Rutland and Melton, Alicia Kearns MP – 128 signatures
24. Brecon and Radnorshire, Fay Jones MP – 128 signatures
25. West Worcestershire, Harriet Baldwin MP – 128 signatures
26. South East Cambridgeshire, Lucy Fraser MP – 128 signatures
27. Broadland, Jerome Mayhew MP – 127 signatures
28. High Peak, Robert Largan MP – 126 signatures
29. South Cambridgeshire, Anthony Browne MP – 126 signatures
30. New Forest West, Desmond Swayne MP – 125 signatures
31. Truro and Falmouth, Cherilyn Mackrory MP – 124 signatures
32. Ross, Skye and Lochaber,  Ian Blackford MP – 123 signatures
33. Ceredigion, Ben Lake MP – 121 signatures
34. Totnes, Anthony Mangnall MP – 121 signatures
35. Argyll and Bute, Brendan O’Hara MP – 121 signatures
36. Ludlow, Philip Dunne MP – 120 signatures
37. Norwich South, Clive Lewis MP – 119 signatures
38. Mid Norfolk, George Freeman MP – 118 signatures
39. Monmouth, David Davies MP – 118 signatures
40. Scarborough and Whitby, Robert Goodwill MP – 118 signatures
41. York Outer, Julian Sturdy MP – 117 signatures
42. Calder Valley, Craig Whittaker MP – 117 signatures
43. Bristol West, Thangam Debonnaire MP – 116 signatures
44. Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey,  Drew Hendry MP – 116 signatures
45. North Cornwall, Scott Mann MP – 116 signatures
46. North Somerset, Liam Fox MP – 116 signatures
47. Wantage, David Johnston MP – 114 signatures
48. Dumfries and Galloway, Alistair Jack MP – 113 signatures
49. Forest of Dean, Mark Harper MP – 113 signatures
50. Hexham, Guy Opperman MP – 113 signatures
51. The Cotswolds, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP – 113 signatures
52. North West Norfolk, James Wild MP – 113 signatures
53. Winchester, Steve Brine MP – 112 signatures
54. South West Wiltshire, Andrew Murrison MP – 109 signatures
55. Hereford and South Herefordshire, Jesse Norman MP – 109 signatures
56. Preseli Pembrokeshire, Stephen Crabb MP – 108 signatures
57. South West Surrey, Jeremy Hunt MP – 108 signatures
58. North Dorset, Simon Hoare MP – 107 signatures
59. Berwick-upon-Tweed, Ann-Marie Trevelyan MP – 107 signatures
60. Witney, Robert Courts MP – 106 signatures
61. North Devon, Selaine Saxby MP – 106 signatures
62. Lancaster and Fleetwood, Cat Smith MP – 105 signatures
63. Cambridge, Daniel Zeichner MP – 104 signatures
64. Yeovil, Marcus Fysh MP – 104 signatures
65. Mid Dorset and Poole, Michael Tomlinson MP – 103 signatures
66. Chippenham, Michelle Donelan MP – 103 signatures
67. Bexhill and Battle, Huw Merriman MP – 102 signatures
68. Penrith and the Border, Neil Hudson MP – 101 signatures

Prominent shooters: Bill Wiggin, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

Cabinet members: Therese Coffey, Ann-Marie Trevelyan, Alistair Jack, Michelle Donelan

Other government ministers: James Heappey, Andrew Griffith, David TC Davies, Jesse Norman, Marcus Fysh