This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Give UK Small Businesses emergency funding in order to retain the jobs COVID-19
Release emergency funding in order to enable small businesses to pay the salaries of the employees who are eligible for the retention scheme! Support the promised job retention scheme! Enable the employers to keep their employees by paying the employees' the 80% salaries that you have promised!
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Small businesses are in a very bad place as even if they want to retain their employees and do everything to allow them to access the PROMISED 80% pay, if they have no funds, they simply cannot save their jobs! Businesses are left on their own with employees looking at them hoping that they can save their jobs! due to Covid-19, the Government should set up an emergency fund to ensure they can retain their employees and to do that they need money to pay the 80% salaries the government promised!
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Since you started your petition the Government has launched the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-for-wage-costs-through-the-coronavirus-job-retention-scheme
We have published a number of petitions calling for increased support for small businesses, which you might like to sign:
Extend grants immediately to small businesses outside of SBRR: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/305024
VAT refunds for SMEs: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/313807
Extend £10,000 small business grant to SMEs that do not have a property: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304161
Suspend VAT/Business Rates/PAYE Payments for three months amid outbreak COVID-19: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301377
Raise the (SBBR) small business COVID-19 grant to £25,000 help small businesses: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/307846
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https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
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You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
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