Submitted on Wednesday 8th April 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 2nd June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
"Warehouse and premises" should get government grant too, same as RHLGF
The government to give grant to “warehouses and premises” and not to limit its scope of assistance to retail, hospitality and leisure sectors only. Warehouse and premises are equally suffering from the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and are following the government instructions to close down
Warehouses and premises are suffering from the same consequences of the global pandemic and of no fault of these businesses having to close down. Many businesses are in dire financial state (with no cash flow at all) if they are not boosted with the much-needed cash influx in the form of a grant. The government should consider awarding the same amount of assistance to "warehouse and premises" as retail, hospitality and leisure businesses.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We understand that you want the Government to extend the coronavirus Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund, but it's not clear how you want the Government to change its eligibility.
The current grant applies to businesses in certain sectors, and also specifies properties covered by the fund.
If you want the Government to extend the grant to cover warehouses and other premises of hospitality, retail or leisure businesses, you could start a new petition requesting this.
If you want the Government to extend the grant to new industries, and properties not currently eligible, you could start a new petition requesting this, but would need to be clear what industries or businesses you wanted the grant to be extended to.
We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:
Include wholesale businesses in the COVID 19 Business Rates Relief: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/320692
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