Submitted on Friday 20th March 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 31st March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
COVID-19 Stop Price Increases
Support the the communities by asking shops not to overcharge.
We, residents of the United Kingdom, seek the Government’s clear support and response to 'hiked up prices' by the local shops as a result of panic-buying by some amidst COVID19. Many people are on low income and living on welfare benefits. We believe, local businesses and some of their suppliers took advantage - and continue to do so - of local people because of the coronavirus. Now, vulnerable people, single parents, elderly and people who lost their jobs finding it very difficult to buy anything as they cannot afford or able to buy. We hope the Government will work with the local authority and trading standard to make sure this does not happen in the future and take any corrective measure to provide relief and help now.
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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
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
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coranavirus outbreak.
Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/
Read letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/
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