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Revoke Furloughed Job Retention Scheme for Individuals Breaking Lockdown Rules

Submitted on Friday 10th April 2020

Rejected on Thursday 11th June 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

Petition Action

Revoke Furloughed Job Retention Scheme for Individuals Breaking Lockdown Rules

Petition Details

Anyone caught breaking and abusing lockdown rules (ie sunbathing, public BBQ’s, non-household gatherings, should have their job retention benefits revoked and not be eligible to taxpayers money


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We understand that you want people breaking the rules for social distancing to be subject to greater penalties, but the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme provides a grant to employers who have to furlough their staff due to coronavirus.

Fines for committing offences by breaking the Government's rules on social distancing are imposed by the police. You could start a new petition calling for the Government to increase the penalties for breaking these rules, including by making the penalty 80% of the offender's income.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Tougher penalties for not following the Covid 19 rules: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/314400

Increase fines for breaking Covid-19 regulations to £1000 for first offense: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/320026

Make Covid19 Non Compliance Fines min £10,000 & use to fund NHS/Key Worker PPE: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/315520

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/

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