PETITIONS
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Petition, Vikki Slade.Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Hairdressing and barber businesses are a core component of our high streets. They bring millions of repeat visits every year.they provide local jobs, improve our emotional well-being and cannot be replaced by AI or moved
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Yet they are in crisis, with apprentice starts reduced by 84% since 2015, employment likely to fall by 93% by the end of this Parliament, and Salonowners seeing the VAT rate as a penalty for employment and growth. So the 2,000 plus signatories of this petition request that the House of Commons urge the government to introduce
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