Rejected petition Support for the newly self employed. For people who registered in 2019.

To look at the Scottish governments response to this for such individuals (newly self employed hardship fund) such individuals are being provided a level of support to those who registered in 2019 as self employed but England are excluding this group entirely from the self employment support

More details

For one government in the UK to offer support to one group that another government has left out entirely seems completely unfair if we are one country.

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.

Pay self employed workers a wage due to lack or earnings caused by COVID-19: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/303345

Provide COVID19 income support for the newly self-employed, without HMRC records: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310471

Base self employed income support grant on 2019-20 tax returns: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/318435

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 28 May 2020
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.