APPG Gaps in Covid-19 Financial Support

Minutes of the AGM and APPG Meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Gaps in Covid-19 Financial Support from Wednesday 11th February 2026 Any questions please contact Secretariat Secretary, Jennifer Griffiths, via admin@excludeduk.org

@AndyBurnhamGM if you make it no number 10. You’re in charge !!! Don’t let them tell you that you can’t keep your promises! #Excludeduk #Nomoreuturns #yesminister

@ExcludedFighter @bphillipsonMP @ExcludedUK @UKLabour @AndyBurnhamGM @GMB Many of us won’t financially recover without help. We can’t bring back the lost homes or suic**e victims. But some fiscal help may lift the pressure of debt and restore retirement plans. This affected so many including our dependents. @ExcludedUK @AndyBurnhamGM @labourpress

@bphillipsonMP After years of Keir Starmer calling out the last callous government he has also left the #ExcludedUK 3.8 million behind. Children trapped in poverty have grown up under another leader who's betrayed them Bridget. @ExcludedUK @UKLabour @AndyBurnhamGM @GMB x.com/i/status/18816…

@AndyBurnhamGM if your plan is to restore people’s faith in politicians then you need to honour your promises. Most are now politically disenfranchised and think you are all the same.. prove 3.8 million of us wrong.. #Excludeduk #Nomoreururns

@AndyBurnhamGM if you make it to number 10. You’re in charge !!! Don’t let them tell you that you can’t keep your promises! #Excludeduk #Nomoreuturns #yesminister

@RupaHuq @andyburnhamHQ @AndyBurnhamGM After years of calling out the Tories for failing the #ExcludedUK taxpayers, Andy must now use his seat in Parliament to force this callous @UKLabour gov to right these wrongs after ALL OF their previous condemnation of the last cabal. @Daily_Express @PA x.com/i/status/13870…

@AndyBurnhamGM you told 3.8 MILLION #excludeduk hardworking taxpayers to make No to listen! So will YOU listen?!?! After promising to fight until we get #justice #parity!! @ExcludedFighter @ExcludedUK @susannareid100 @GMB

@AndyBurnhamGM We congratulate you Andy on your win in #Makerfield and look forward to you joining 70+ MPs at @switherdenMP's vital @APPGGapsSupport for financial restitution at last.. @UKLabour @thatginamiller @MartinSLewis @MetroMayorSteve @SadiqKhan @JohnDCaudwell x.com/i/status/13652…

@andy4makerfield Hope is what 3.8 million #excludeduk hardworking taxpayers are holding onto! Hope that we will FINALLY get #justice #parity that we deserve! @ExcludedFighter @ExcludedUK @susannareid100 @GMB

@griffitha Utter premiership codswallop, poppycock, rubbishy nonsense from @griffitha & @Conservatives An unfathomable, unforgettable & unforgiveable callous policy decision ... just own & acknowledge it. #ExcludedUK @ForgottenLtd @Prosper_UK_ @PulaRJS @AndyBurnhamGM @mattlynnwriter

@AndyBurnhamGM Hope you don't forget about 3.8 MILLION #excludeduk hardworking taxpayers, when you become PM. You were our loudest supporter during #Covid_19 which we are grateful for 🙏. @ExcludedUK @ExcludedFighter @susannareid100 @GMB

@RNBlake @AndyBurnhamGM Rachel if you have time to campaign for Andy then you have time to NOW stand up for thousands of your #ExcludedUK across the #CityOFLondon and #Westminster abandoned by the Tories and this @UKLabour GOV.. @APPGGapsSupport @ExcludedUK @SadiqKhan @itvlondon x.com/i/status/13298…

@AndyBurnhamGM We @ExcludedUK taxpayers got missed too! Let's hope you will keep your promise to 'fight until we get #justice 🤞! 3.8 MILLION #excludeduk hardworking taxpayers during #Covid_19. Left behind with NO FURLOUGH OR SEISS! @ExcludedFighter @ExcludedUK @susannareid100 @GMB

@elliereeves @AndyBurnhamGM @UKLabour Ellie. What would be brilliant is for you to now remember again that 3.8 million people have been abandoned for over six years, and now call on this @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour GOV to right those wrongs for your #ExcludedUK in #Lewisham West and East #Dulwich x.com/i/status/13246…

THE EXCLUDED FEEL DUPED SIR KEIR!!! @Keir_Starmer WHY DID YOU TURN YOUR BACK ON US? THIS VIDEO PROVES THAT YOU BACKED US BEFORE YOU WERE VOTED INTO GOVERNMENT…A LOT VOTED FOR YOU FOR EXACTLY THAT REASON! WE COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE DECISIONS OF THE PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT…. BUT SO ARE 3.8 MILLION UK TAXPAYERS WHO WERE DELIBERATELY EXCLUDED FROM PARITY OF COVID-19 FINANCIAL SUPPORT! WE TRUSTED THEM TO SUPPORT US AND WERE SCREWED OVER…. ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO DO THE SAME?!??? IT HAS BEEN 5 LONG YEARS SINCE, THEN CHANCELLOR @RishiSunak SAID "YOU WILL NOT FACE THIS ALONE... WELL 3.8 MILLION UK TAXPAYERS WERE. 5 YEARS ON: * MEMBERS ARE STILL ATTEMPTING SUICIDE – INCLUDING ONE THIS WEEK! * PEOPLE ARE STILL NOT EATING PROPERLY * FAMILIES ARE STILL NOT ABLE TO USE HOT WATER * BELOVED PETS ARE STILL SADLY BEING REHOMED * BOUNCE BACK LOANS ARE STILL CRIPPLING * BUSINESSES ARE STILL CLOSING MPs & LORDS...PLEASE JOIN OUR 'GAPS IN COVID-19 FINANCIAL SUPPORT' APPG NOW TO HELP #EXCLUDEDUK MEMBERS SURVIVE TO JOIN, PLEASE EITHER MESSAGE US ON HERE, OR EMAIL EXCLUDEDUK@HOTMAIL.COM YOUR EXCLUDED CONSTITUENTS NEED YOU! DID YOU GET LITTLE OR NO FINANCIAL SUPPORT DURING COVID? Were you excluded from fair and equal Covid-19 financial support? If so, join some of the other 3.8 million UK taxpayers who were, as we campaign for this scandal to be put right.. bit.ly/3UunLTY Dutifully paid in, deliberately left out! Lives & livelihoods ruined! 37+ suicides and hundreds of attempted suicides! Website: excludeduk.org Facebook Group: bit.ly/3UunLTY Sign up to our mailing list: bit.ly/4bdpB0U There are over 20 categories of exclusions including: ·New starters ·New Businesses ·PAYE freelancers ·Newly self-employed ·Those denied furlough ·Directors paid in Dividends ·Directors paid PAYE Annually ·Made redundant before 19 Mar 2020 ·Directors of Companies not in Profit ·Self-employed with +£50k trading profits ·Businesses ineligible for Business Grants ·Those in maternity/parental/adoption leave ·Those earning less than 50% income from self-employment ·Those whose personal circumstances have affected entitlement to support e.g. pensions, bereavement allowance, carer’s allowance, students, armed forces veterans… and more… ExcludedUK are asking for: (1) An apology from government so this injustice is recognised and assurance that it will never happen again. (2) Parity of support (3) Acknowledgement of loss of earnings/profit and consequential loss. #ExcludedUK

@johnmcdonnellMP @jamesmurray_ldn @switherdenMP @APPGGapsSupport @ExcludedUK @hmtreasury @LabourList @mainstreamlbr @KimJohnsonMP @UKLabour @MENnewsdesk @PA @MartynDaySNP @JohnSwinney @StephenFlynnSNP @CliveMyrieBBC @BBCNews @mpsusanmurray @Meg_HillierMP @Keir_Starmer @LBC @theJeremyVine @GMB @DanNeidle @AlexDaviesJones @keirstarmer @10DowningStreet @BethRigby It is firmly in the interests of 3.8 million people for @BBCNewsnight to report on the PM refusal to not address the #ExcludedUK injustice. Despite the calls from the APPG, his Gov remains in utter contempt for these taxpayers @MattChorley @vicderbyshire x.com/i/status/20158…

📣 Lords and MPs, please attend the ‘Gaps in Covid-19 Financial Support’ APPG Annual General Meeting This is an important opportunity to come together, review progress, confirm office holders, and agree priorities for the months ahead, including the ongoing impact of Covid-19 support gaps on small businesses and individuals who were excluded from parity of pandemic support. 🗓️ Wednesday 11 February 2026 🕟 16:30 📍 Portcullis House, Room R ✅ Please RSVP 📩 admin@excludeduk.org 🌐 excludeduk.org Dutifully paid in, deliberately left out. #ExcludedUK #APPGGapsSupport #APPG #Parliament #HouseOfCommons #HouseOfLords #CovidSupportGaps #SmallBusinesses #SelfEmployed

@johnmcdonnellMP @jamesmurray_ldn @switherdenMP @APPGGapsSupport @ExcludedUK @hmtreasury @LabourList @mainstreamlbr @KimJohnsonMP @LivEchonews @UKLabour @MENnewsdesk @PA @MartynDaySNP @JohnSwinney @StephenFlynnSNP @CliveMyrieBBC @BBCNews @mpsusanmurray @Meg_HillierMP @HackneyAbbott @Keir_Starmer @LBC @theJeremyVine @GMB @DanNeidle @AlexDaviesJones With the local, Scottish, Welsh, London elections in just 91 days @KeirStarmer @10DowningStreet, it is very much in @UKLabour's interests for you to stop stalling and meet with the APPG to discuss redress for #ExcludedUK VOTERS? @BethRigby @PaulKohlerSW19 x.com/i/status/20132…

@Prosper_UK_ Why play right wing or even inside right, or centre forward or inside left or even on the left wing, when each and every position ignores the elephant on the pitch: the Con Party's policy decision to #ExcludedUK over 3m small biz & freelancers. The epitome of politically homeless