Overturn COVID-19 vaccine mandate for frontline workers

Rejected 18 signatures

What the petition asks

To overturn legislation to mandate healthcare workers to take COVID-19 vaccines.

End the mandate to have the vaccine. There isn’t enough scientific evidence to show the actual effectiveness of the vaccines against COVID-19. Health people without underlying health conditions risk developing health issues from the vaccines. Therefore it is not reasonable to remove people’s right to choose whether or not they want the vaccine.

Why it was rejected

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

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Prohibit employers from requiring staff to be vaccinated against Covid-19: Prohibit employers from requiring staff to be vaccinated against Covid-19

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On Monday 31 January, the Secretary of State for Health Sajid Javid MP announced plans to revoke regulations making vaccines a condition of deployment for health and social care staff, subject to public consultation and parliamentary approval.

Read the Secretary of State's statement, and question from MPs: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2022-01-31/debates/C23A5791-2CC9-44FA-B9D6-BC9355C014C1/VaccinationConditionOfDeployment

In his statement the Secretary of State said that the Government would launch a consultation on ending vaccination as a condition of deployment in health and all social care settings.

Find out more about the Government's plans: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/consultation-on-removing-vaccination-as-a-condition-of-deployment-for-health-and-social-care-staff

Timeline

26 Jan 2022	Petition opened for signatures
1 Feb 2022	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 18

Status Rejected

Rejected 1 Feb 2022

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