Submitted on Tuesday 17th March 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 31st March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Profitable reselling of consumer essentials made illegal during Covid19 crisis
Introduce heavy fines for anyone found to be reselling hoarded essentials such as medicines, sanitary products, hygiene products, foodstuffs and toilet paper etc at inflated prices in order to profit from the current shortage due to the Coronavirus crisis
To protect people who have not managed to gain access to such products over the past days and weeks. This will also stop exploitation of people by unscrupulous individuals and discourage civil unrest. It would also assist in controlling the spread of the virus as people will have better access to essential items without having to search for them from several locations
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/303070
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