Submitted on Friday 10th April 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 20th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Give NHS Staff the extra £10,000 expenses allowance, that's been given to MPs.
To reconsider the move to give MPs an extra £10,000 allowance to work from home and to instead give our frontline NHS workers a national raise in the wages they earn.
Recently it was announced that our MPs, like a lot of people right now, are to work from home. However, to enable them to do this they have been allocated up to an extra £10,000 in expenses. Meanwhile our NHS Staff that we clap and applaud every Thursday at 8pm, see no benefit at all. This is despite the fact that they are fighting this virus everyday, putting themselves at risk.
I propose that the extra £10,000 allowance should be reconsidered and given to our NHS Frontline Staff.
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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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