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Remove all taxpayer subsidy from House of Commons restaurants and hospitality.

Submitted on Thursday 22nd October 2020

Rejected on Tuesday 3rd November 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Remove all taxpayer subsidy from House of Commons restaurants and hospitality.

Petition Details

It seems entirely inappropriate that MP’s only pay less than £5 for a meal valued at up to six times that amount. This subsidy seems grotesque in the context of regional lockdowns where ordinary people are having to survive on only a proportion of their income. All these subsidies should be removed.

Additional Information

MP’s need to take responsibility for their own welfare and hospitality not have the state provide a ‘safety net’ where non is required.


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This petition was rejected

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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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Increase food and drink prices for MPs in House of Commons catering venues: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/555565

Increase food and drink prices in House of Commons catering venues: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/555947

The House of Commons Catering service does not provide a subsidised service in the commercial sense of the word. Some venues make a profit, while in other venues the cost of providing the service does exceed the income received in sales due to the irregular hours and unpredictability of parliamentary business. The House of Commons publishes details of the cost of House of Commons catering services: www.parliament.uk/site-information/foi/transparency-publications/hoc-transparency-publications/catering-services/transparency-reporting-catering-services/

Customers of the House of Commons Catering Services include some of the 650 MPs but also around 14,500 other pass-holders, many of whom are staff on lower wages that work irregular hours. In addition, members of the public and non pass holding visitors to Parliament also have access to these services. The irregular hours and the unpredictability of Parliamentary business contribute to increasing the net cost of providing a catering service. To offset this many of the restaurants, dining room facilities and their staff, are used to cater for private events at times when they are not required by the House. This is one of a number of measures used to reduce costs.

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