Petition · past parliament

Provide FFP3 masks to all key workers nationwide.

Rejected 18 signatures

What the petition asks

Provide FFP3 masks to all key workers nationwide, All NHS staff, Care workers, Food Industry and Delivery Service workers, Royal Mail Staff, anyone still actively working. These are high-grade masks filtering out 99% of particles smaller than 0.6 microns, key in prevention of COVID-19.
To save the lives of key workers and their families.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: Provide all workers dealing with the public PPE to be protected from COVID-19

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

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

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/

Read letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/

Timeline

23 Mar 2020 Petition opened for signatures
29 Apr 2020 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 18
Status Rejected
Rejected 29 Apr 2020

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.