Open beauty salons and spas on the 4th July 2020 in line with similar businesses · petition

What the petition asks

Allow beauty salons, spas and allied businesses to open on the 4th July 2020.We are an industry which is largely or can solely be by appointment only, has GDPR compliant data collection already in place for traceability of consumers, worth £8billion to the economy with inherently sanitary procedures

By not allowing professional establishments to open (many of which operate under strict licensing regulations) it pushes the public into the hands of opportunists willing to operate outside of the law,where the opportunity to trace contact is lost. It is inconsistent that our industry is considered high risk when people are allowed inside pubs, cinemas & bingo halls with few restrictions & no opportunity for tracing. We are highly trained, qualified, with strict procedures & are being dismissed.

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

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