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During this emergency, make profiteering a criminal offence.

Submitted on Thursday 19th March 2020

Rejected on Tuesday 31st March 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

During this emergency, make profiteering a criminal offence.

Petition Details

Bring in legislation to make profiteering an offence.

Additional Information

Locally we are seeing Toilet rolls at £10. In Leeds.
A 750ml Dettol Superdrug £3.50, Amazon £13.29. eBay £24.99.
A pack of 18 Paracetamol £10.
Supermarket shelves are empty, the most at risk group struggling to obtain essentials, workers laid off.
And a small section of our community is cashing in on their misfortune.


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This petition was rejected

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.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/303070

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