Closed petition Ensure that Uniform Laundry tax relief is equal between civilian staff and police officers

Closed on 30 March 2015

In early December 2013 I received a reply letter from HMRC explaining that police officers receive £140 and that civilians receive £60 for their laundry allowance.

This is a serious unequal pay as the type and quantity of uniform are the same for both types of staff. For example, Detention Officers in Hampshire use exactly the same uniform as sergeants, only for the colour of shirts.

I would like to ask you to liaise with HMRC, Home Office and the Equality and Human Rights Commission to have the laundry allowance to be made the same amount for both police officers and civilians. All police forces across the United Kingdom vow to Equality and this discrepancy is clearly unequal.

I also seek that, should the allowance be upped, that all civilian personnel receive a refund of the difference for the past 6 years when they have received unequal pay.

In my view this is a straight forward issue which needs to be resolved as a matter of principle, moral and urgency.