Petition · past parliament
Revoke the plan to pay MP’s £10,000 to cover expenses whilst working from home.
Rejected
11 signatures
What the petition asks
Do not pay £10,000 to each MP for expenses whilst working from home.
Laptops and printers should be government assets and not purchased through MP’s expenses.
Gas and electric used can be claimed using the formula for tax returns and simply claimed through the current expenses route.
Laptops and printers should be government assets and not purchased through MP’s expenses.
Gas and electric used can be claimed using the formula for tax returns and simply claimed through the current expenses route.
This is an incredible amount of money for expenses. The majority of workers in this country are working from home right now and are not getting ANY payments for equipment, utilities or sundries such as paper and ink. This is an excessive amount of money whilst at the same time, a campaign is on to ask people, including the thousands without a current income and those who have lost their jobs, to donate to the NHS. It appears that ALL civil servants are not EQUAL, as no one else is getting 10k
Why it was rejected
It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.
We can't accept your petition because the UK Government and Parliament aren't responsible for MPs' expenses. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) is responsible for deciding on MPs' expenses and pay. IPSA is independent of both Parliament and Government.
You can find out more about IPSA here: https://www.theipsa.org.uk/about-us/
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/
Read correspondence with Government Ministers asking further questions: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/
You can find out more about IPSA here: https://www.theipsa.org.uk/about-us/
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/
Read correspondence with Government Ministers asking further questions: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/
Timeline
| 12 Apr 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 27 Apr 2020 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
11
Status
Rejected
Rejected
27 Apr 2020
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.