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Should MPs be banned from expensing their energy bills?
IPSA allows non-London MPs to claim utility bills including energy costs on one second home used for parliamentary work, within overall accommodation budgets of around £21,680 to £31,840 annually. Claims totalled hundreds of thousands in recent years, such as £300,000 in 2023-24 and over £270,000 in early 2025-26 for council tax and utilities combined. This occurs against the backdrop of the cost of living crisis and cuts to winter fuel payments for pensioners.
5 Opinions
Absolutely. They should also face the same tax and employment regulations of the rest of the nation. How dare they take decisions, have responsibility for changing living standards of the nation - whilst conveniently exempting themselves! As George Orwell wrote: animals are equal, except for the pigs (responsible for rule setting!)…
The parasitic way of live MPs, and other public servant should end. They are given generous salaries that should allow them to live.
Yes. Ban it. They earn £98,599 and still charge second-home energy to us. They lecture on the ledger and squeezed winter fuel while their heating stayed on IPSA. If the bill hit their own wallet they might drop the virtue and back North Sea oil and gas that actually keeps houses warm. A second workplace is real. Insulation from the meter is not representation.
Telling struggling pensioners to wrap up warm while MPs expense £300k in heating bills for their second flats is rank hypocrisy. Covering basic rent so non London MPs can work in Westminster is almost fair enough, but subsidising their personal utility bills is absolutely indefensible.
MPs rinse this country enough with the exception of one in Great Yarmouth.