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Increase the ARG Payment for close contact services

Submitted on Tuesday 27th April 2021

Rejected on Tuesday 4th May 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Increase the ARG Payment for close contact services

Petition Details

The ARG Payment is an insult to home businesses and renters within the close contact sector. We are exempt from business rates just like many salons that are exempt but there's a large difference in payment. Salons have been allocated £8000 yet the ARG Payment is £1700.

Additional Information

The ARG Payment should be the equivalent to the previous ARG Payment! This payment is towards ongoing business costs, we also need the restart! We also need to boost our businesses. Our businesses are just as important as salons on the high Street or on street corners. Most salons don't pay business rates. Yet they have recieved a grant because they fall under the rates category. We want to understand why these businesses are exempt and why we have been treated differently. We want the same


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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.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

It is up to individual councils to determine which businesses to support and determine the amount of funding provided from the ARG scheme, but you may wish to sign this petition calling for a similar action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/577659

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