Submitted on Sunday 1st February 2026
Rejected on Tuesday 24th February 2026
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
end tax payer money being used to subsidise mp's food and alcohol in Westminster
No tax payer money should be used to fund any alcoholic drink and food in any Westminster bars they should pay like any person would .
Normal working people don't get subsidised food or drink this is clearly a freebie why should we the people have to put up with this any longer we don't live in the middle ages anymore this needs to stop.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Catering services for the House of Commons are provided by an in-house team who do not provide a subsidised service in the commercial sense of the word. Some venues make a profit, referred to as contribution because it contributes to reducing overall costs. 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 contribution or cost of each venue is calculated by subtracting the food and operational costs from the catering sales. Rather than a subsidy, the House monitors the contribution or cost of each catering venue, which include cafeterias, dining rooms, restaurants and bars. Prices of food and drink are regularly benchmarked against appropriate external comparators.
You can read more about this here: www.parliament.uk/site-information/freedom-of-information/information-we-already-publish/house-of-commons-publication-scheme/catering-services/house-of-commons-cost-of-catering/
We can't accept petitions about catering in the House of Lords as that is the responsibility of the House of Lords.
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