Petition · past parliament

Give grants to all businesses not just ones with £51000 rateable value.

Rejected 14 signatures

What the petition asks

Give the grant to all businesses they’ve closed regardless of rateable value. As it’s not fair to give to I but not the rest.
So businesses can stand a chance of surviving this covid 19.

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: Extend grants immediately to small businesses outside of SBRR

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

2 Apr 2020 Petition opened for signatures
26 May 2020 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 14
Status Rejected
Rejected 26 May 2020

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