Rejected petition Sunday Trading Hours

More details

It is time to reconsider our extremely restrictive Sunday trading laws. The six hours maximum that shops are allowed to stay open is an anachronism in our modern secular society. In in a country with declining church going these rules, originally instigated by the church, seem no longer relevant. The benefits are obvious: increasing employment, boasting sales revenues, enhancing tourism and, last but not least, providing opportunities for busy people to shop at the same hours that they could during the rest of the week. We believe the government should add this to its proposals for stimulating the economy and scrap Sunday trading laws. Let the retailers decide when they open..

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 5 August 2011
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.