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This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament

Rejected petition Cancel parliament summer recess to deal with covid assistance for businesses.

More than 300k businesses, more than 3 million sole traders are need financial assistance due to being unable to work during lockdown & more than 200k businesses cannot access bounce back loans. Parliament must not take a summer recess while this disaster still affects millions of people.

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Parliament must remain in session and respond to the needs of the millions of people that will lose their businesses, their homes, their livelihoods before it is too late.

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