Submitted on Thursday 19th May 2016
Rejected on Wednesday 25th May 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Members of Parliament and the House of Lords should not have other jobs.
Members of Parliament and Members of the House of Lords should not have any other types of employment, paid or otherwise. They are well paid for parliamentary work and should not be distracted or preoccupied by other occupations. They should attend Parliament for at least 40 hours per week.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We already have a petition open calling for MPs not to have second jobs:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/121701
If you would like Parliament to change the law, to prevent Members of the House of Lords from having second jobs, we could accept a petition calling for that.
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