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End tax payer subsidies for MP's food, they earn over £75,000 per year!

Submitted on Saturday 24th October 2020

Rejected on Friday 30th October 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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End tax payer subsidies for MP's food, they earn over £75,000 per year!

Petition Details

The MP's should not be getting subsidised food and they should be paying full price for their breakfast, lunch and dinner. Government should put an end to it

Additional Information

I want the government to put an end to subsidised food in the houses of commons, because they all earn £75,000+ plus per year, so why on earth should they be getting subsidised food, paid for by the tax payer? It's an absolute disgrace and is another example of MP greed and audacity to think it's ok, when people are losing their jobs due to Corona virus lockdowns.


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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 petition, which you might like to sign:

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

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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