Rejected petition Allow students to terminate their accomodation contract early due to Covid-19

Due to recent circumstances all face to face teaching at universities has been cancelled, and so student accomodation is not longer required. It is very unfair to force students who have also been made redundant, to pay large sums of money for accomodation they’re not even allowed to be in.

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Allow those who wish to, to terminate their contract early

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Suspending payments for rent is a matter for individual landlords, and not the UK Government or Parliament.

The Government has published an FAQ for university students on Covid-19, which includes advice on accommodation costs: https://dfemedia.blog.gov.uk/2020/04/09/university-students-covid19-faq/

You might like to sign these petitions, which call for similar actions:

Enable private tenants early release from tenancy agreements due to Covid-19: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/312609

Refund university rent and tuition fees due to coronavirus: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304855

Encourage lenders, landlords and utilities to freeze payments during lockdown: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302256

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

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/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

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

Date submitted 4 April 2020
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