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Stop price increases on food and medicines during the outbreak of Covid-19

Submitted on Monday 16th March 2020

Rejected on Wednesday 1st April 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: already-happening (see below for details)

Petition Action

Stop price increases on food and medicines during the outbreak of Covid-19

Petition Details

The government body should be responsible for monitoring business competition and preventing anti-competitive activities, the Competition and Markets Authority, needs to prevent retailers against taking advange of the coronavirus outbreak.

Additional Information

So that the government can consider taking direct action to regulate prices.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Since you started this petition, the CMA has made a statement about sales and pricing practices during the Coronavirus outbreak, you can read this here: www.gov.uk/government/news/covid-19-sales-and-pricing-practices-during-coronavirus-outbreak

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

UK Government website: www.gov.uk/coronavirus

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