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Reverse the Decision to hand MPs an extra £10,000 in expenses claims

Submitted on Friday 10th April 2020

Rejected on Wednesday 20th May 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Reverse the Decision to hand MPs an extra £10,000 in expenses claims

Petition Details

You have enough money in your annual salary to work from home and pay your staff with the current £23,000 expenses limit. The £6.5 million would be better spent on the actual front line, on ventilators and medical equipment. I feel OUR money can be spent a whole lot better than this.

Additional Information

There are more important things to spend £6.5million on. An MP "payrise" is not one of them.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We can't accept your petition because the UK Government and Parliament aren't responsible for MPs' pay or expenses. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) is responsible for deciding on MPs' expenses and pay. IPSA is independent of both Parliament and Government.

You can find out more about IPSA here: www.theipsa.org.uk/about-us/

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