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Enable furloughed engineers to carry out R&D to create world class IP for the UK

Submitted by Richard Doherty on Wednesday 27th May 2020

Published on Wednesday 19th August 2020

Current status: Closed

Closed: Friday 19th February 2021

Signatures: 11

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Covid ~ Covid-19 ~ design ~ Designed ~ Enable ~ Job Retention Scheme ~ Lost ~ property ~ Tax ~ Thousands ~ Time ~ UK

Petition Action

Enable furloughed engineers to carry out R&D to create world class IP for the UK

Petition Details

The Government should allow furloughed engineers to carry out R&D (research and design) on collaborative programmes that could generate world-class Intellectual Property for the benefit of the UK.

Additional Information

We believe that under the current job retention scheme, thousands of work years worth of R&D will be lost. By allowing the UK's engineers to develop new innovations at this time will give UK plc a key competitive advantage and much-needed economic boost post Covid-19. Allowing furloughed engineers to carry out this work will result in much greater benefit to the UK at no additional cost to the tax payer.


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