Submitted on Monday 27th February 2012
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Petition to end subsidised food in Parliament
We the undersigned petition HM Government to immediately withdraw, with permanant effect, the subsidised food available to members of parliament.
It is absurd that the average taxpayer (average earnings ~£25k) should subsidise food for the average MP (minimum earnings £60k plus allowances, expenses etc).
The poor should never subsidise food for the rich. It is a mockery to spend £5.8 million per annum subisdising food for just 650 MPs. As they sit 150 days per year this is £60 per day per MP, more than the average person will spend on food in a week.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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