Submitted on Sunday 12th April 2020
Rejected on Monday 27th April 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Revoke the plan to pay MP’s £10,000 to cover expenses whilst working from home.
Do not pay £10,000 to each MP for expenses whilst working from home.
Laptops and printers should be government assets and not purchased through MP’s expenses.
Gas and electric used can be claimed using the formula for tax returns and simply claimed through the current expenses route.
This is an incredible amount of money for expenses. The majority of workers in this country are working from home right now and are not getting ANY payments for equipment, utilities or sundries such as paper and ink. This is an excessive amount of money whilst at the same time, a campaign is on to ask people, including the thousands without a current income and those who have lost their jobs, to donate to the NHS. It appears that ALL civil servants are not EQUAL, as no one else is getting 10k
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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' 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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