This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We can only publish petitions that call for the Government to take a specific action.

We understand that you want the Government to support small company owners to pay their commercial and personal rent, but it's not clear exactly how you want the Government to do this.

The Government has already put in place a range of measures to support businesses, employees and self-employed workers. Details of the support available is on the following page, under the section on "Employment, financial support and money": www.gov.uk/coronavirus

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

You might be interested in particular in the following petitons:

Government to pay rent or mortgage of all UK citizens during Covid-19 outbreak: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306150

Encourage lenders, landlords and utilities to freeze payments during lockdown: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302256

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 find 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: committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/