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Close all retail on boxing day, retail isn't needed on boxing day!

Submitted by Jack Johnson on Tuesday 4th October 2016

Published on Friday 14th October 2016

Current status: Closed

Closed: Friday 14th April 2017

Signatures: 148,327

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Boxing Day

This petition was debated in Parliament on Monday 12th December 2016

Debate Pack
at the House of Commons Library Official Transcript
at Hansard

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MPs who spoke in the debate

Helen Jones (Warrington North) (Lab)
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North) (Lab)
Yvonne Fovargue (Makerfield) (Lab)
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
Andrea Jenkyns (Morley and Outwood) (Con)
Mrs Madeleine Moon (in the Chair)
Gavin Robinson (Belfast East) (DUP)
Drew Hendry (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) (SNP)
Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East) (Lab)
Bill Esterson (Sefton Central) (Lab)
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Margot James)

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