Submitted on Thursday 19th March 2020
Rejected on Friday 17th April 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
instruct local councils to pay up home to school and adult service contracts
The government should Instruct local authorities to pay up home to school and adult services contracts to taxi and private hire contractors in order to help them stay afloat during this difficult time. The trade has completely gone and we need help
The taxi and private hire trade has completely been wiped out during this corona virus time. We need help. By instruct loacal authorities to pay up these contract it will help keep these self employed drivers ticking over, just about surviving, helping the burden on the state.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Local road passenger transport contracts are a matter for individual local authorities, not the Government or Parliament.
You could start a new petition calling on the Government to reimburse transport providers who have lost income as a result of losing income from road passenger transport contracts.
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