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Give taxi drivers and self employed more financial support during the Covid19

Submitted on Sunday 22nd March 2020

Rejected on Tuesday 31st March 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: already-happening (see below for details)

Petition Action

Give taxi drivers and self employed more financial support during the Covid19

Petition Details

those whom are self employed such as the hair and beauty sector, self employed transport businesses to given the equal rights as workers who will now have access to Grants/loans or wages paid. Lots of self employed small businesses that dont paid business rates but still pay taxes and 2 types of NI

Additional Information

Once these people run out of money which wont be long they wont be able to feed themselves or their families let alone their normal Bill's.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

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 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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