Rejected petition Remove gym closures from Tier 4 restrictions.

Gym are essential for maintaining people physical and mental well-being. Shutting them again in Tier 4 restrictions will have a detrimental effect on people’s physical and mental health.

More details

The risk in gym ‘can be dramatically lowered through things like effective air-conditioning, regular cleaning, social distancing and hand sanitising.’ (Prof Bell, 2020, BBC News). This is something I believe nearly every gym is doing.

Uk Active (2020) has complied data from the English government and estimates the current cases to be approximately 0.34 per 100,000. They also note that gyms have protocols in place to ensure there is high levels of cleaning within the building as well to reduce transmission, supporting what is said above by professor Bell.

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, or if the Petitions Committee has considered one in the last year.

The Petitions Committee is already considering a petition on this issue: https://petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/244240

The Committee has requested a debate on the petition in early 2021.

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

Rejected petitions are published in the language in which they were submitted

Date submitted 14 December 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 the Senedd. 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.