Rejected petition Require random drug & alcohol testing of MPs, Peers, Speaker & Special Advisors.

Law makers and senior advisors should be law makers and not law breakers. They need to be sober to carry out their important parliamentary business.The public needs to be reassured that they are.

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Other professions - police, army, railway staff etc - whose jobs can have a huge impact on people's lives, have to submit to random drug and alcohol testing. Our politicians, whose decisions and lawmaking likewise have a massive impact on people's lives, should be held to the same standards.

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Why was this petition rejected?

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

We can only accept petitions about matters that the UK Government or the House of Commons are responsible for. We can't accept petitions calling on the House of Lords to take action.

You can find out more about the Code of Conduct of the House of Lords here:

https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-financial-interests/house-of-lords-commissioner-for-standards-/code-of-conduct-for-the-house-of-lords/guide-to-the-code-of-conduct/

You might like to sign these petitions instead:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/264011
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/268651

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Date submitted 22 September 2019
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