Provide 2nd grant for businesses still prevented from opening on July 4th 2020 · petition

What the petition asks

Salons and businesses are still prevented from opening by the government and liable for rent, utilities and insurances. The government has allowed most other businesses to get back up and running - it’s still a blanket no for some - with no help left and no additional loans or grants available.

Beauty and tattoo studios have qualifications in cross contamination and infection control. The fact that this has been overlooked makes no sense. Many of these businesses also use PPE anyway as part of their daily processes. But even so, we would stay closed If we could afford to. Right now many businesses that are still closed are liable for rent, insurances, and utilities and have no more lifelines to use. Please provide a 2nd grant to those businesses who are still forced into closure.

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 a similar action: Give business with prolonged closure due to Covid-19 additional grant funding

Since you started your petition the Government has announced that additional businesses are able to open. You can find additional information about which businesses are allowed to open, and which are still required to remain closed, here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/further-businesses-and-premises-to-close/further-businesses-and-premises-to-close-guidance

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

4 Jul 2020	Petition opened for signatures
10 Jul 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee