Submitted on Thursday 1st October 2015
Rejected on Thursday 29th October 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Stop serving subsidised alcohol in the House of Lords and the House of Commons
Between 2010 and 2015 the House of Lords bought in 17,000 bottles of Champagne. That's an average of 21 bottles per peer over the space of the Parliament. End this injustice during a time of so called austerity.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/07/champagne-house-of-lords-reform-taxpayer
http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/lords-refuse-to-cut-costs-because-champagne-quality-would-suffer--gkRgp-6Cux
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/13/house-of-lords-champagne-bottles_n_5314285.html
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We could accept a petition calling for the House of Commons to stop serving subsidised alcohol in its bars.
However, the House of Lords administration is independent. Neither the Government or the House of Commons could take this action for the House of Lords.
We use the term "Parliament" on this site to keep things simple for people, but strictly speaking it is a joint site owned by the Government and the House of Commons.
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