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Urgent Aid For Businesses & Freelancers Who Service The Live Events Sector

Submitted on Tuesday 29th September 2020

Rejected on Tuesday 6th October 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Urgent Aid For Businesses & Freelancers Who Service The Live Events Sector

Petition Details

1 Grants for businesses in the events supply chain
2 Furlough extended until the industry can get back to work
3 Self employment grants tailored towards the industry
4 Business rates for our sector to be frozen
5 Reduce Corporation Tax and Income Tax

Additional Information

This sector at large has been discarded by government with no industry specific measures to help.
Without major immediate support from government, the entire supply chain is at risk of collapse.

The value of the UK Events Industry totals £84 Billion

Conferences & Meetings £18.3 bn
Exhibitions & Trade Fairs £11 bn
Incentive Travel £1.2 bn
Arts & Culture Events £5.6 bn
Corporate Outdoor £0.7 bn
Weddings £14 bn
Music events £17.6 bn
Festivals, Fairs & Shows £6 bn
Sporting Events £6.9 bn


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This petition was rejected

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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