Stop price increases on food and medicines during the outbreak of Covid-19

Rejected 17 signatures

What the petition asks

The government body should be responsible for monitoring business competition and preventing anti-competitive activities, the Competition and Markets Authority, needs to prevent retailers against taking advange of the coronavirus outbreak.

So that the government can consider taking direct action to regulate prices.

Why it was rejected

The UK Government or Parliament was already taking the action it asked for.

Since you started this petition, the CMA has made a statement about sales and pricing practices during the Coronavirus outbreak, you can read this here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/covid-19-sales-and-pricing-practices-during-coronavirus-outbreak

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

Timeline

16 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
1 Apr 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 17

Status Rejected

Rejected 1 Apr 2020

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