This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Save the Novartis pharmaceutical factory in N E Lincolnshire from closure.
The Novartis factory is due to close just when we ned vaccines and testing kits to fight the Corona virus.
The UK government should take over this factory to keep UK pharmaceutical production.
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If we don't have our own pharmaceutical production we will be too reliant on overseas manufacturing just when other countries have maximum demand.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.
Since you started your petition Novartis has announced that this factory will remain open.
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