Rejected petition Make MP's abstain from voting on issue's of personal and financial interest.

After the expenses scandal clearly highlighted the greed and willingness of our MP's to squeeze every last penny out of the public purse can they really be trusted to vote in the interest of their constituents rather than their parties financial backers or their own business interests.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

The House of Commons already has rules about MPs' financial interests.The full rules are set out in the House of Commons Code of Conduct:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmcode/1076/1076.pdf

If there is a specific change that you would like to be made to the rules, you could start a petition asking for that change.

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Date submitted 4 September 2016
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