End the practice of MP's an Lord's Claiming self portraits on expenses

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

MP's and Lord's are squandering tax payers money on portraits of themselves at upwards of £12,000, its an absolutely disgraceful waste of valuable public money. If they want a portrait of themselves for their own ego them they should pay! its a total disgrace

several prominent politicians like Diane Abbott and Baroness D'Souza seemingly have no shame in spending thousands on portraits and bemoaning cuts in public services

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/mps-spend-250000-of-public-money-on-vanity-portraits-9056130.html

https://order-order.com/2017/03/14/brazen-baroness-dsouza-suggests-media-misreported-her-spending/#disqus_thread

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

MPs are not able to claim for portraits from their Parliamentary expenses. Additions to the Parliamentary Art Collection are agreed to by the Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art. The artworks are paid for by an acquisition budget funded by the House of Commons. Further information on the Committee and the Art Collection can be found here:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/other-committees/works-of-art/role/

You could start a new petition on the Works of Art Committee and its budget.

Timeline

14 Mar 2017	Petition opened for signatures
24 Mar 2017	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 24 Mar 2017

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