In 2020, responding to a plan by the Manor Park Cemetery to mound over the grave of Sarah Chapman, a petition was raised calling for the grave's protection.[13] In July of that year, a motion was tabled in Parliament expressing concern over this planned destruction of Sarah Chapman's burial site.[2] The motion, sponsored by Apsana Begum, Rushanara Ali, John Cryer, Jim Shannon, Alison Thewliss, and Ian Lavery said: