Petition · past parliament

Stop the closure of close contact businesses that are covid safe

Rejected 13 signatures

What the petition asks

Close contact businesses such as tattoo studios, hairdressers, Beauty salons and nail bars should remain open during national lockdown. They can meet higher and safer standards then supermarkets.
Some of these businesses fell through government support grants have had to fight to keep open.
Close contact businesses are going above and beyond to meet covid safe guidelines. They can work on a one in one out system. They have strict hygiene standards in place.
They have successfully implemented the track and trace system.
They are safer then visiting your local supermarket.
These businesses have suffered from the last lockdown and are still fighting to survive.
Many will not survive and need to be open. Give them tighter guidelines and they will meet them. Allow them to stay open.

Why it was rejected

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

Allow Salons and Tattoo parlors to open at same time as hairdressers
Do not require salons to close due to Covid-19
Allow beauty salons to open

### Find out more about coronavirus

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

1 Nov 2020 Petition opened for signatures
4 Dec 2020 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 13
Status Rejected
Rejected 4 Dec 2020

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