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Abolish all subsidised food & drink in House of Parliament food outlets & bars

Submitted on Thursday 10th November 2022

Rejected on Monday 14th November 2022

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

Petition Action

Abolish all subsidised food & drink in House of Parliament food outlets & bars

Petition Details

Stop any form of subsidised food and drink for MPs and guests in the Houses of Parliament. (Retain any subsidy for lower paid centrally employed staff of the House if they currently get it, but not MPs directly employed staff - they would just bring it back to their employers.)

Additional Information

MPs are all paid more than double the median wage and should not need subsidised eating and drinking when there is a cost of living crisis & many working people in the UK have to resort to food banks. When the nurses need better pay why are we spending our money feeding MPs. It sets an enormously bad example of "us and them".


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

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/

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

Raise prices for House of Commons catering services to enable full cost recovery: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/622377

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