Submitted on Monday 20th February 2017
Rejected on Wednesday 8th March 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Stop Members of the House of Lords being paid £300 for turning up
Unelected Members of the House of Lords can currently claim £300 from taxpayers per day for simply signing in to the chamber. They do not have to speak, they do not have to engage at all. It is virtually impossible for a peer to lose these privileges
There are currently more members of the House of Lords than there are MPs, many of them appointed because of their historic support of Prime Ministers and their parties, sometimes because they have funded those parties.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can only accept petitions about matters that the Government or the House of Commons are responsible for. We can't accept petitions calling on the House of Lords to take action.
The House of Lords is responsible for the allowances and expenses paid to members of the House of Lords. You can find out more here:
http://www.parliament.uk/business/lords/whos-in-the-house-of-lords/house-of-lords-expenses/
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