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Support the traditional Fish & Chip industry! Reduce the VAT on Fish & Chips!

Submitted on Sunday 29th June 2025

Rejected on Wednesday 23rd July 2025

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Support the traditional Fish & Chip industry! Reduce the VAT on Fish & Chips!

Petition Details

I would like parliament to understand the detrimental hit the industry is having, due to the extreme vat, electric, gas, fish industry, potatoes/farming, rising wages.

Yet we are expected to somehow create more money to pay the VAT BILL!

Additional Information

Because if you don’t, you won’t have any fish and chip shops left.
At-risk within 12 months
~33% (~3,500 shops)

Industry Pressure
Ingredient cost hikes
Sunflower oil: +60%–77%)
Cod & haddock: +75% increase
Potatoes: +30%–300% (
Packaging: +38%–45%
Energy costs
Gas & electricity doubled or worse, operational margins squeezed
Fishing fleets also hit by fuel – fish supply viability threatened ()
Tax & wage inflation
Minimum wage hikes & potential return to 20% VAT

THATS WHY!


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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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You may wish to sign this petition which calls for similar action:

Eliminate VAT on hot takeaway food
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/725467

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