Reduce the salary of MP's by 20% to provide increased funding towards NHS.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Temporarily reduce the annual salary of all Members of Parliament by 20% in line with pay cuts taken by politicians in other countries. To allow the capital created from this pay cut to be put into other vital services such as the NHS for the purchase of PPE required to reduce the spread of Covid-19

Hold a vote in Parliament over whether all members of parliament should receive a temporary pay cut of 20%. During this pandemic it is vital that the NHS and frontline staff receive all the required equipment to conduct their jobs to the best of their ability with the lowest level of risk. Increasing the funding to not only provide vital testing and PPE for NHS staff to reduce the spread of Covid-19. Many UK citizens have received pay cuts due to the pandemic this should extend to MP's.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

The setting of MPs' salaries is a matter for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), not the UK Government or Parliament: https://www.theipsa.org.uk/.

Individual MPs have the right to donate a portion of their salaries to the NHS, should they wish, and a number have done so: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/youngest-mp-salary-charity-workers-labour-nadia-whittome-a9246686.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/coronavirus-tory-mp-salary-donate-tracey-crouch-latest-a9423931.html

Timeline

17 Apr 2020	Petition opened for signatures
26 Jun 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 26 Jun 2020

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