P-05-1042 Support SMEs in hair and beauty industry during local lockdowns

P-05-1042 Support SMEs in hair and beauty industry during local lockdowns

This petition was submitted by Charlotte Louise Griffiths having collected a total of 1,070 signatures.

Text of Petition:                     

We SMEs are heavily impacted by local lockdowns.

By preventing clients from entering a contained and sanitary space (covid compliant as per Welsh Gov guidelines) you are hindering our client bases from visiting.

This has a detrimental effect on our businesses which if continued will be catastrophic.

Additional Information:

We in the hair and beauty industry are safe

We check temperatures.

We adhere to full PPE.

We ensure a one in one out appointment system.

Despite this local lockdowns are reducing our client bases up to 80%.

We still have full utilities, salaries and rents to pay.

We are allowed to enter a clients home in a lockdown area which is not safe according to PHW but they are not allowed to enter our salons.

We need the Welsh Government to recognise us as a safe and regulated industry.

We have as an industry worked hard to ensure our salons are safe , compliant, sanitary and safe for the public to enter.

Status

This petition was considered completed by the Petitions Committee at its meeting on 17/11/2020.

The Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to note the correspondence received. In light of the fact that a national set of restrictions have been implemented since the petition was submitted, with no local travel restrictions currently applying within Wales, and because hair and beauty businesses have been able to reopen following the firebreak, the Committee agreed to close the petition.

Full details of the consideration of this petitions by the committee and related documents can be seen on the Meetings tab above.

It was first considered by the Petitions Committee on 17/11/2020.

Senedd Constituency and Region

• Cardiff South and Penarth
• South Wales Central

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