Petition · past parliament

The recall of Parliament to address shortage of PPE for people in public Sector

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

To address the chronic shortage of personal,protection equipment PPE within the NHS and Social Care sector. The shortage is placing staff at risk those who are trying to protect our loved ones.
Because only Government can deal with this humanitarian emergency only Central Government can organise this.

Why it was rejected

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

Provide all workers dealing with the public PPE to be protected from COVID-19: Provide all workers dealing with the public PPE to be protected from COVID-19

Protect essential workers from contracting and spreading Covid-19: Protect essential workers from contracting and spreading Covid-19.

Supply PPE to all Health and Social Care workers including community carers: Supply PPE to all Health and Social Care workers including community carers

Provide adequate PPE equipment for medical professionals working with COVID-19: Provide adequate PPE equipment for medical professionals working with COVID-19

Provide urgent support and PPE to carers during coronavirus crisis: Provide urgent support and PPE to carers during coronavirus crisis

Suitable equipment to protect our front-line police officers from COVID-19: Suitable equipment to protect our front-line police officers from COVID-19

Fund and provide safety clothing for the supermarket staff on the frontline: Fund and provide safety clothing for the supermarket staff on the frontline

COVID-19: Commandeer production of British-made PPE for frontline staff: COVID-19: Commandeer production of British-made PPE for frontline staff

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

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

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 26 May 2020

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