Submitted on Saturday 31st October 2020
Rejected on Friday 6th November 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Omit leisure centres & gyms from the month-long lockdown (5th Nov - 2nd Dec).
Allow swimming pools, leisure centres & gyms to remain open in spite of the most recent lockdown announcement (31.10.20) on the basis that these are well managed environments where the risk of transmission is low & a 2nd period of closure will push many facilities into permanent closure.
The case has been consistently made that aquatic & physical indoor activity is both safe & a lifeline for many people in such uncertain times & that leisure centres should therefore be considered an essential service.
There are fewer options available to exercise outdoors through the cold winter months than there were during the first, summer, lockdown.
Research published by ukactive shows there had been only 78 confirmed cases among >22 million visits between 25 July and 13 September.
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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:
Keep gyms and leisure facilities open during any lockdown: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/556956
Prevent gyms closing due to a spike in Covid 19 cases: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/333869
The Committee will be holding a debate on Covid-19 restrictions on gyms and sport on Monday 23 November. You will be able to watch the debate on Parliament TV at 4.30pm: www.parliamentlive.tv/Commons
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