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Rejected Stop alcohol in parliament

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Hannah Spencer recently highlighted that Members of Parliament are allowed to drink alcohol while working! Including while voting on important decisions.I believe this is something people across all political views can agree on: MPs should not be drinking alcohol while working or voting, full stop.

Hannah Spencer recently highlighted that Members of Parliament are allowed to drink alcohol during the working day, including while voting on important decisions. I was also shocked to learn that alcohol in Parliament is sold at subsidised prices, funded in part by taxpayers.

I’m starting this petition because I believe this is something people across all political views can agree on: MPs should not be drinking alcohol while working or voting, full stop.

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:

Ban the sale and consumption of alcohol in House of Commons venues
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/768417

Catering services for the House of Commons are provided by an in-house team who do not provide a subsidised service in the commercial sense of the word. Some venues make a profit, referred to as contribution because it contributes to reducing overall costs. In other venues, the cost of providing the service does exceed the income received in sales due to the irregular hours and unpredictability of parliamentary business. The contribution or cost of each venue is calculated by subtracting the food and operational costs from the catering sales. Rather than a subsidy, the House monitors the contribution or cost of each catering venue, which include cafeterias, dining rooms, restaurants and bars. Prices of food and drink are regularly benchmarked against appropriate external comparators.

You can read more about this here: https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/freedom-of-information/information-we-already-publish/house-of-commons-publication-scheme/catering-services/house-of-commons-cost-of-catering/

We can't accept petitions about catering in the House of Lords as that is the responsibility of the House of Lords.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.