Submitted on Thursday 14th May 2020
Rejected on Monday 18th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Cancel HS2, and use funding to offset against Taxpayer bill for Covid-19 support
Request the government cancels HS2 or postpones it until a future date, repurposing the funds to offset against the Taxpayer bill for Covid-19 Support. This would help reduce the Taxpayer bill and alleviate some of the need to increase taxes in the future. HS2 is a luxury can live without.
Once support for homes and Taxpayers ends for Covid-19, there will undoubtedly be a tax bill that needs to be paid. By cancelling the remaining HS2 programme this will save billions of pounds and help ease any future burden on UK households via tax. HS2 is not needed, it's already long overdue and well over budget, the sensible thing would be cut our losses and move forward. UK Gov should review all major spend commitments, identify those we can do without and repurpose funds to Covid as well.
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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.
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You may wish to sign these petitions calling for the same action:
Repeal the 2013 and 2017 HS2 Hybrid Bills halting all HS2 works immediately: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300170
Cancel HS2 and use the money for the NHS and local economies, post Covid-19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/311642
Halt work on HS2 and Stonehenge Tunnel until Coronavirus over: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302756
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