Submitted on Sunday 22nd March 2020
Rejected on Monday 27th April 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Limits on shopping items,numbers of people in supermarket, prioritise elders,NHS
Ensure that opening hours are extended so that priority hours to NHS key workers/vulnerable people are effectively applied.
Max store capacity is significantly reduced, enforced, there is compliance with social distance while shopping and paying.
Currently the supermarkets have unsustainable queues, no body is respecting the social distances therefore the virus will spread way more quicker and also people will soon starve.
Extra explanation on the previous points:
Ensure that opening/operation etc (i.e. priority shoppers can shop and pay, without having to wait for tils to open at normal hours).
Maximum store capacity (i.e. number of shoppers at one time).
Deliveries to the rest of the population even via taxi driver (uber eat model)
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
A number of actions you have called for, such as in relation to the hours of opening and priority given to particular groups of customers, are a matter for individual supermarkets, and not the Government or Parliament.
The Government has published guidance for food businesses on coronavirus, including on how to maintain social distancing:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-for-food-businesses/guidance-for-food-businesses-on-coronavirus-covid-19#social-distancing
Making changes to how they operate in response to this guidance is a matter for individual supermarkets. Many supermarkets have made changes to their opening hours, including having dedicated shopping time for particular groups of customers, and have also limited the number of people allowed in their shops at one time.
We have accepted petitions calling on the Government to make a number of changes that relate to supermarkets and providing food to certain groups, which you might like to sign:
Introduce limits on per customer purchases in all supermarkets: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300766
Allow larger supermarkets to remain open without restricted hours on Sundays: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302665
Supply NHS key frontline staff working during Covid-19 healthy food hampers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306339
UK Government: issue care packages to the elderly and vulnerable: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302190
Encourage retailers to prioritise those over 70 shopping online for essentials: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301126
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
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 can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here:
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
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 coronavirus 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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