Re: Recall petition
Originally Posted by
Omah
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AFAIK, MPs do not get an attendance allowance but peers do .....
Thanks Omah, I stand corrected on that. My confusion between Peers who do get a daily attendance allowance and MPs who do not may have been due to reading one report and then another much older reported proposal that MPs should also get an allowance:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...arliament.html
That move, way back in 2009, for an allowance to be introduced for MPs I believe, but apparently that was scrapped:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...s-1672108.html
When I read reports, such as the one below from just four years' ago, it is another of the 'fiddles' that have been occurring and for someone who has worked hard for a living for 55 years it does rather 'grate', as I am sure it does with many who have done the same:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...-of-Lords.html
Another more up-to-date report shows a 1.8% (£5 a day / £25 a week) increase in the peer’s daily allowance, more of an increase than some working people get in their monthly pay probably:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...ers-parliament
However, checking all this out has benefits for the ‘learning curve’. There are 800 peers and 650 MPs but strangely only seats for 427 MP’s in the House of Commons:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31049249