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Reimburse rents for small businesses due to corvid-19 no Arrears to be paid

Submitted on Tuesday 24th March 2020

Rejected on Thursday 30th April 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Reimburse rents for small businesses due to corvid-19 no Arrears to be paid

Petition Details

Help self employed small businesses with rent, don’t make rents be paid back as arrears for properties we can’t use to create revenue

Additional Information

Give small businesses some help, we are not creating any revenue why should we be forced to pay rent arrears on premises we can not use to create revenue


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Suspending payments for rent is a matter for individual landlords, and not the UK Government or Parliament.

If you want the Government to encourage lenders, landlords and utilities to freeze payments during lockdown, you may wish to sign this petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302256

We have also published petitions calling on the Government to increase financial support to individuals and businesses affected by coronavirus, which you might like to sign. You can view all petitions relating to coronavirus here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open&topic=covid-19

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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