Submitted on Friday 27th March 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 31st March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
NHS staff to be paid Tax Free Salaries, This includes overtime and bank work.
ALL NHS staff to be paid tax free salaries for six months .
NHS staff are risking their lives and exposing their loved ones in the face of this pandemic. We are also working in anti-social hours and putting our personal comforts aside to provide services to the general population. We feel as though a tax relief in this period will partially negate the hidden costs of that is felt by our immediate families when we partake in our employment duties.
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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/304595
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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.
On Wednesday 25 March the Committee questioned Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jenny Harries on the Government’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic. You can find out more about this session here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/
On Monday 30 March the Chair of the Committee wrote to Government ministers of several departments asking for responses to a number of questions raised by petitions, and suggested by the public in response to a survey distributed to signatories of petitions on coronavirus. You can read these here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/
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