Submitted on Thursday 26th March 2020
Rejected on Monday 20th April 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Give all small businesses affected by Coronavirus access to government grants.
Whist we appreciate the efforts the government has taken to compensate those affected by the Coronavirus, some are left without help. If you’re a small business owner who is paid a small salary and receives the rest of their income through dividends there is no help other than to take out a loan.
We’d like the government to either offer grants to all small businesses, even if they don’t have premises, or to give directors who receive a small salary and are paid mainly in dividends the same support as PAYE and self employed people (up to £2500 per month for 3 months). Many wonderful small businesses cannot afford to take out loans. We hope you will consider this.
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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 these petitions calling for the same action:
Extend grants immediately to small businesses outside of SBRR: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/305024
Coronavirus Support Package for Directors / Shareholders of small Limited Co's: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310515
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/
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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