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Petition update, 25 January 2008

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Why must women pay the full cost of a new passport when wanting to change their name on their passport after getting married. There is also no reimbursement for years not used on passports when a name change occurs. Men will never have to pay this charge while women take on their husbands' surname. It is sexist and extortionate. We ask the Prime Minister to abolish this and look at reorganising the way this issue is dealt with at the passport office.

Current signatories

Natalie Brettell, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Kelly Day
• sandra streeting
• Dick King
• S King
• Philip Glover
• Pat Harris
• sarah wilkinson
• K Stanley
• Margaret Jones
• Sarah Irish
• Esther Brown
• Matt Berry
• Alison Brindley
• Kirsty Whitehouse
• Samantha Hipkins
• Melanie Thornton
• David Tite
• Traci Laird
• Nicola Eden
• Faye Padfield
• Alyssa Brown
• Natasha Davies
• Lorraine ladds
• cara linehan
• Laura Wrigglesworth
• Philippa Stevens
• Lesa Davie
• joanne mackin
• lynne rodger
• Rosa-Michelle Frappola
• sarah jones
• Laura Binley
• Julie Downing
• michelle stone
• Louise Clarkson
• Victoria Berresford
• eve dalling
• Trudy Hynds
• sarah Deakins
• Kathryn Tickle
• Lucy Edwards
• Helena McEvoy
• Paula Ogilvie
• Louisa Brown
• Helen Williams
• Stephanie Green
• lisa johnston
• jenny stockton
• lisa gilfeather
• sasha
• Angel Calbert
• Laura Mostyn
• Claire Dyson
• Alison Madew
• Sian Louise Harrington
• Tina Prideaux
• Laura Hall
• Amanda Robertson
• Sarah Hall
• Jacob Brown
• Tracy Collins
• Laura Miller
• Helen Davis
• Louise Robertson
• Keeley Hamer
• Linda Healey
• Joanne Louise O'Brien
• Jonathan Ford
• KIM WISEMAN
• Alison Murray
• rachael thompson
• Sarah Webster
• lynn flemyng
• Aileen Low
• Helen Marciniak
• roslyn gerrie
• Beverly Russell
• Lisa Thomas
• Lisa Richardson
• Liz Myers
• Madeleine Kenny
• Rebecca Clarke
• leanne pearce
• M Trim
• Georgina Phillips
• Louise White
• PETER HAWBROOK
• Sara Asakereh
• Kevin Pearce
• Emma Butler
• Emily McDermott
• Rachel Austin
• Lisa Callagan
• Rena Prince
• Clare Dickson
• Sara Millard
• louisa roots
• Krisha Baker
• joanne walker
• GARY JOHN EDWARDS
• Sarah Jones
• C Burns
• jennifer brown
• Sally Crowley
• Caroline Eunson
• Beverley Cooke
• Adele Bolland
• Emma Barker
• Rebecca Massey
• Kelly Walton
• Edward Cunliffe
• Claire Knowles
• Rebecca Leashorne
• John Stevens
• Laura Taylor
• cheryl jenkins
• Peter james Stevens
• Cath Acha
• samantha kelly
• sarah kelly
• david wilson
• Liz Thompson
• J Allman
• pearl walmlsey
• Pamela Griffiths
• Dawn Evans
• Will Stevens
• Vicky Leadbeater
• lucy horsfall
• Heather Fowler
• Dana Lodge
• Deborah Passey
• Nicola Glynn
• Mandy Gardiner
• Kimberley Rowlatt
• Cara Dodson
• Gemma Gibbs
• Lucinda Seiler
• Mark Leadbeater
• Amy Greenan
• Natalie Steadman
• Katie Frow
• Loretta Bamford
• Anne Allan
• Amanda Davies
• Vicki Hulbert
• Rachael Stenton
• sam greene
• Laura Mitchell
• Sandy Allan
• Rachael Mear
• Penelope Causton
• Anna Davies
• Christine Champion
• Rebecca Cato
• Emma Sheils
• EMMA SMITH
• Robert Chambers
• victoria hargrave
• Donna McGurk
• Kate Tait
• Paula Brazier
• Emma Parks
• michelle elizabeth gerrens
• samantha king
• sadie king
• Kyly Wilson
• Hayley McKernan
• nathan collins
• Lucy Andrews
• Nicola Neilson
• Kayleigh Seatter
• Helen Westbrook
• kelly astley
• Justine Longstaff
• Helen
• charlotte searchwell-guest
• Hazel Wilkey
• Anna Cleobury
• Elizabeth Magowan
• Pamela Westbrook
• Keeley Lund, nee Saunders
• lauren auld
• Justine Cornforth
• Theresa Dick
• Elizabeth Taylor
• Emmalene Lee
• Julia Brooker
• Kari Dearman
• Donna Wickham
• laura chambers
• keith shipton
• Alison Thornton
• Natalie Graham
• Charlotte Regan
• shelley pipe
• Susan Cartwright
• Barbara Cartwright
• Denis Brian Cartwright
• Gemma Hobson
• Zoe Owen
• Marie O'Donnell
• Katherine Tsang
• Sarah Hall
• Jenna MacPhee
• Emma Jones
• Diane Cockburn
• Adrian Orr
• Heather Blair
• michelina holdaway
• Emma Rix
• Fay Newall
• gemma Wellings
• K Martin
• Karina Collins
• Helen Buxton
• Sarah Bailey
• sarah cork
• caroline robinson
• annabel sharpe
• michelle harrison
• Doreen Taylor
• Michelle Jane Smith
• Richard Pelling
• Leanne Johnson
• Jenny Anderson
• Pat Matthews
• Siobhan Wood
• Linda Turnbull
• kirsty lockhart
• B Norval
• Gemma Cole
• Jacqueline Thorpe
• Ann-Louise Mustchin
• Katherine Robb
• j curtis
• Linaire Peters
• Andrew Penny
• Rebecca Gladwell
• Sarah Andrews
• M B Turner
• Kerry Plant
• Yvonne Jones
• Kirsten Dzeryn
• Natasha carrington.
• Clare Murray
• Fiona Wilson
• jo thomas
• chantelle insley
• Kelly Perry
• hazel parker
• Karen Anne Watt
• Brian Steele
• Safwaan Zamakda
• Natalie
• Fuchsia Arnold
• Taslim Pathan
• Sally Caine
• Tang Hin Lung
• Alison Clark
• Lynne Cook
• Samantha Nagel
• Lindsay Dyer
• Laura Worley
• Rosanna Howlett
• Carrie Wallace
• lucy russell-lebrett
• Sandra Barker
• Michelle Hills
• Kelly Evans
• Teresa Dunne
• Jo Jepson
• Michelle Nelson
• Sarah Long
• Gemma Braithwaite
• Sian Fowler
• Danielle Rowley
• Amanda Minto
• L Scarboro
• Debbie Wilbur
• kelly widdowson
• Sarah edmondston
• lucy Palmer
• Rachel Nguyen
• Denyse Mohan
• Nikki Marie Shepherd
• Daniel Francis Richmond
• Jo Wood
• laura fallows
• juliet roberts
• Kim
• Laura Blizard
• Wendy Dawson
• KEIRA RAVENSCROFT
• ciara farrell
• Sean Haran
• Or change the law/custom (whichever it is) of women taking husbands' names in 1st place
• chris phillips
• Maureen Custerson
• matthew
• Oliver Gillespie
• Emma Haley
• S Kinsley
• Danielle Williams
• Eddie Gadsden
• Galadriel Potter
• Danielle M Robinson
• Helen Trelford
• Helen Harrison
• Sara Tait
• Chris Brierley
• mark woodbine
• Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
• jess miller
• elaine huggins