Submitted on Monday 3rd February 2025
Rejected on Thursday 27th March 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
To class coeliac disease as a disability in the UK
To help change make coeliac disease a disability to reflect the daily struggles that people diagnosed have to deal with from work to personal life.
I have recently been diagnosed and is very difficult to get people to take the disease seriously in places like work and in personal life
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The Government's guidance on disability under the Equality Act 2010 states that you’re disabled if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities:
www.gov.uk/definition-of-disability-under-equality-act-2010
It is therefore already the case that under the Equality Act, anyone with a physical or a mental condition which has a substantial and long-term impact on your ability to do normal day to day activities is protected under the disability protected characteristic. This could cover people who have endometriosis, where this has a a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on their ability to do normal daily activities. So it's not clear what else you would like to happen.
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.
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