Submitted on Thursday 19th April 2018
Rejected on Monday 9th July 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Match meal budgets in Parliament to the per-head cost in state primary schools.
Following the rejection of the petition to remove subsidies from food and drink in Parliament as this would unfairly impact staff paid less than MPs I feel the issue could be resolved by matching the per capita budget for food in Westminster with that of state primary schools in the UK.
This would allow all people working in Parliament and their visitors to buy cheap meals with the same excellent nutrition of those currently offered in state primary schools under their current budgets. This would remove the need for subsidy and also entail the removal of alcohol from Westminster as this would not be possible using the smaller budget. In future any increase to Westminster food and drink budgets could only passed if accompanied by a similar increase across all state schools.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do. Parliament doesn't have per-head meal budgets in the way you describe, so we're not sure exactly how you'd like this to work.
You may wish to sign this petition instead:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/218055
You can find out more about the costs of catering in Parliament here:
www.parliament.uk/site-information/foi/transparency-publications/hoc-transparency-publications/catering-services/transparency-reporting-catering-services/
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