Emergency help for businesses & individuals paying salaries, mortgages & rent.

Rejected 16 signatures

What the petition asks

We need the government to urgently step in and help small businesses to meet their salary & rental obligations, and for individuals in paying their mortgages and rental payments due to orders and payments from clients being stopped, causing extreme pressure on small businesses and their staff.

If the government does not step in soon, there will be massive business failures and missed payments, causing a knock on effect that will create an economic breakdown at a core level.
The small business man cannot support the larger companies during this time as payments are stopped and future work put on hold, making it impossible to trade normally with cashflow seriously effected.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Since you started your petition the Government has announced a workers' support package, which includes a Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to help pay people’s wages: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chancellor-announces-workers-support-package

We have also published a number of petitions calling on the Government to provide support to particular industries, or make specific changes to benefits and employment entitlements.

If there is a specific change you would like the Government to make that it has not already you could start a new petition requesting this.

Timeline

14 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
24 Mar 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 16

Status Rejected

Rejected 24 Mar 2020

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