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Accept ventilators from the company GTech.

Submitted on Saturday 28th March 2020

Rejected on Wednesday 13th May 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Accept ventilators from the company GTech.

Petition Details

Accept the free manufacturing of ventilators from the company GTech for the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. To Save lives we need as many as possible. GTech have offered to make these in two weeks and the government turned down the offer. Dyson can make as well. We need as many as possible!

Additional Information

Accept the offer and put in production for the NHS staff.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We cannot accept petitions that call for the Government to engage the services of a particular company.

Since you started your petition the Government has published additional information of its work to increase ventilator capacity: www.gov.uk/government/news/new-ventilator-challenge-devices-arrive-in-uk

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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