Petition · past parliament
Extend retail business rates holiday benefit to dental practices.
Rejected
21 signatures
What the petition asks
Retail and hospitality businesses will get a rates holiday for the whole year and will also have financial help from the government. The dental practices are also location based businesses. They too are closed like all other retail business. Why are such key workers exempt from such important help?
The dental practices have been instructed to close, indefinitely. The dentists are key workers and have been volunteering for help in these difficult times. They also have a duty of care to the public.
The overheads are running and the governement has opted to exclude them from all financial help, other than business loans. Why are they treated so differently to the retail and hospitality sector?
They too have staff, and also patients to care for, and this way they won't be able to reopen.
The overheads are running and the governement has opted to exclude them from all financial help, other than business loans. Why are they treated so differently to the retail and hospitality sector?
They too have staff, and also patients to care for, and this way they won't be able to reopen.
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: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
Timeline
| 1 Apr 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 22 May 2020 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
21
Status
Rejected
Rejected
22 May 2020
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.