Submitted on Wednesday 29th April 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 2nd June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Change of Coronavirus Small Business Grant Qualifying Date
My Local Council are stating I need to be on their rating list on the 11th March 2020 to be able to qualify for the Coronavirus Business Rate Grant. I urge the Government to abolish this date so small businesses who operate from a premises can claim for the Grant. If you agree please sign.
Lots of businesses occupy a premises - I applied for the Rates Grant of £10,000. I've occupied a small office since April 2016 and the New Forest District Council, have informed me I am not eligible to claim for the grant as the property (ie my office) was not on the rating list on the qualifying date of 11th March.
How many other businesses have tried to claim for this Grant and been refused. The council have been given money from the Government to support local small businesses at this time
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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.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign some of these petitions:
Extend grants immediately to small businesses outside of SBRR: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/305024
Extend £10,000 small business grant to SMEs that do not have a property: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304161
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www.gov.uk/coronavirus
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
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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.
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