Add businesses such as mechanical industries to the essential closures list

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

Add factories, warehouses and private businesses that build mechanical equipment, in areas such as agriculture and boating for example, to the "essential closures" list. These industries need to know they can claim financial help if needed and protect their workforce from contamination of Covid-19.

The businesses that work in areas such as, agricultural equipment, sailing and other mechanical industries are having to put their workers at risk, due to not being on the essential closures list. This is also due to uncertainty about their entitlement to support, from the government.
Many of these workers are at risk of contracting Covid-19 due to their working environment and often work in confined spaces. For their safety and financial security, please support them and add to the list.

Why it was rejected

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

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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

25 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
1 May 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12

Status Rejected

Rejected 1 May 2020

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