Rejected petition Scrap MP's subsidized bars and restaurants and use the saving to fund social care for the elderly and disabled.

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MP's subsidized bars and restaurants costs the taxpayer £5.8m a year while Local Authorities are cutting funding to social care for the elderly and disabled. This money would be better spent looking after the most vulnerable in society.

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Date submitted 2 February 2012
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