Extend Business Rates Relief to Veterinary Practices in the UK during COVID19 · petition

What the petition asks

Veterinary practices in the UK have been excluded from the UK Government's support packages during the current COVID19 pandemic crisis. Retail, leisure and hospitality businesses have been granted Business Rates Relief. The UK Government has unfairly excluded veterinary practices from this scheme.

Veterinary Practices are in a uniquely vulnerable situation in the current crisis. They must continue to operate to maintain the food supply chain and provide vital care and treatment to animals, while simultaneously adopting strict social distancing measures. This has created a dramatic loss of income to practices which leaves them struggling to cover overheads. They have been unjustly excluded from Business Rates Relief scheme announced by the government, putting their survival at risk.

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 Financial Help to Veterinary Practices during 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: 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