Rejected petition instruct local councils to pay up home to school and adult service contracts

The government should Instruct local authorities to pay up home to school and adult services contracts to taxi and private hire contractors in order to help them stay afloat during this difficult time. The trade has completely gone and we need help

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The taxi and private hire trade has completely been wiped out during this corona virus time. We need help. By instruct loacal authorities to pay up these contract it will help keep these self employed drivers ticking over, just about surviving, helping the burden on the state.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Local road passenger transport contracts are a matter for individual local authorities, not the Government or Parliament.

You could start a new petition calling on the Government to reimburse transport providers who have lost income as a result of losing income from road passenger transport contracts.

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Date submitted 19 March 2020
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