Petition Create a Ministerial position for the Self Employed

There are almost 4.8 million self employed people in the UK who have no direct representation in Government. Whilst there is a Minister for Small Business (which is applauded), the needs of the self employed, in many cases, are very different to even small employers.
This needs to be addressed

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Areas that need addressing include (but are not limited to):

- The need for a 'self employed bank account' - A simple transactional account
- Affordable financial services - Realistically priced income protection and medical cover should be introduced.
- The levelling of the playing field in terms of maternity and paternity
- Increased Pension provision - employees are being encouraged to enrolled into a Workplace Pension. What is the sole trader equivalent?

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This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

253 signatures

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Date closed 9 February 2017
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