Allow nail bars and beauty salons to reopen on the same date as hairdressers

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

The Government’s decision to allow hairdressers to re-open but not other beauty salons will be crippling to those businesses. If a hairdresser has face-to-face contact to cut your fringe with only a visor for protection, then why can’t a nail bar provide a manicure with a Perspex screen in place?

The beauty industry contributes £27.2 billion pounds to the U.K. economy annually and yet is often overlooked or forgotten about by the British Government, particularly the service based brands such as nail bars and beauty salons. We are asking for beauty salons to be treated in the same way as hairdressers and be allowed to reopen on 4th July, as many of these businesses have safely prepared for.

Why it was rejected

The UK Government or Parliament was already taking the action it asked for.

Since you started your petition the Government has announced that beauty salons are being allowed to reopen, and has published guidance for close contact services.

Read the announcement about the reopening of beauty salons here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/beauty-salons-set-to-reopen-for-some-services-next-week-under-new-government-guidelines

Read the Government's guidance on close contact services here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/working-safely-during-coronavirus-covid-19/close-contact-services

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 find 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

23 Jun 2020	Petition opened for signatures
21 Jul 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 21 Jul 2020

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