Rejected petition Use Empty Taxpayer funded accomodatiom to house homeless families over Christmas

With Parliament being closed for several weeks over Christmas, open up MP's uninhabited London accommodation to homeless families and encourage every MP to provide Christmas lunch for the new occupants

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According to Shelter 80,000 children will be homeless this Christmas, let's use taxpayer funded accommodation to provid temporary respite care

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Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

This would be a decision for individual MPs to take, not for Parliament as a whole.

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Date submitted 13 November 2015
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