MPs to get £10000 extra for WFH?

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Am I being unreasonable to think if true this is ridiculous? When everyone else WFH is sucking it up? Prizes who can think of why - unless like minister Janrick you have two homes and have just travelled 300 miles to bring food to self isolating parents.

Its laughable.

Ok. Why don't you go do some research and then come back and try again with some coherence?

Link?

Link?

It’s not a salary increase as such but a fund to assist with working from home for them and staffers

www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-mp-expenses-working-home/false-claim-british-mps-award-themselves-extra-10000-in-expenses-idUSKCN21R2IX

It's not £10k into the pocket of MPs. It's a fund from which equipment for their staff can be funded e.g. buying laptops, printers etc.
And its a maximum expenditure.

It will pay for equipment needed to allow them and their staff to work from home. Most MPs staff only have desktop computers in parliament so laptops would need to be bought, phone calls paid for, printing etc. Some MPs may have up to 5 members of staff. Seems fair to me.

My workplace bought us all laptops without needing extra funding.

@Likethebattle yes but presumably if not organised centrally by IT, the finance dept at your company allocated extra costs in your department budgets to account for them?

I had to buy a new laptop to enable myself to work from home ( teacher) whilst my daughter completes her school work on the old laptop . Am sure I'm not the only person to do that. Also when NHS staff don't have proper protection it feels like a kick in the teeth for money to be spent on MPs expenses.

Jeremy Corbyn has already donated his 10k to the NHS

MPs aren't getting given £10k to work from home.

Each MP is being given access to a fund, if they need it, of up to £10k each in order to purchase equipment to allow their staff to work from home. So if an MP has ten staff, for example, that's a maximum of £1,000 they can spend per staff member. It may seem a lot but once you've taken into account desks, chairs, laptops, screens, keyboards, mice, printers, purchasing software and setting up secure remote connections, that £1,000 per person will soon go. And if they have more than 10 staff it could go even more quickly!

I'm working from home and I've already spent upwards of £100 on equipment, not counting the desk and chair which I bought years ago. And work has provided me with a laptop, keyboard, mouse etc.

@maddy68 Surely given this is a fund for equipment if needed, then Corbyn does not have an extra 10k to donate. Or is he just too think to realise that?

@maddy68 that would be a neat trick since the funds have to be applied for with evidence of equipment purchased.

Corbyn is not donating the 10k. It would be in extremely bad taste if he did because it is meant for office equipment for him and his staff. The best thing he could do is not to claim it if he actually wants to save money. People really will believe any old tripe about Corbyn. Thank God he's gone.

1. they haven’t been given it- it’s an increase to the budget available
2. it can only be used for parliamentary reasons- and will have to be proved with receipts or paid back
3. Corbyn hasn’t been given it so he can’t donate it to anyone
4. most MP staff work on desktops which cannot be moved (security etc) and will need secure laptops to wfh. MP staffgave access to VER sensitive info (NI numbers/benefits details/visa issues etc etc which constituents have asked for help with- let alone the entire electoral roll & personal details of thousands of people)
5. in some case MP staff have to make hundreds of calls to constituents- including all round the world stranded by corona - why shouldn’t they be able to claim that back?
6. most MPs won’t need to use the extra money as they’ll use existing budgets
7. MPs didn’t ask for this, they had no choice. They were emailed about it 2 weeks ago telling them it was there.

oh for gods sake. Some People will honestly believe anything about bloody Jeremy Corbyn As long as they can still put him on a bloody pedestal. No he hasn’t because it isn’t his to give.

I'm working some of the time from work, and also continue to work part time away.

I get no allowance for working from home.

My workplace bought us all laptops without needing extra funding.

My workplace expects us to provide our own equipment. They won't reimburse me for the webcam I had to buy so that I can teach my students online, and another colleague has had to fork out for a laptop out of her own pocket.

@gcaacademic is your workplace IT routinely attacked by foreign hostile powers trying to find a way in?
Do you have access to an intranet with very sensitive info on it (national security level)?
MP staff do- so they need secure systems.

I thought it was they could claim up to 10k extra in expenses so that they can set themselves and their staff up for working from home?

DH doesn’t work from home but some of his colleagues have been bought cash computers, extra screens etc so that they can. Same thing. It’s not a payrise.

If Corbyn has donated it he’ll need to pay it back out of his own money (of which he had plenty).

I am wfh. I would like £10,000 please. Where do I apply?

‘I thought it was they could claim up to 10k extra in expenses so that they can set themselves and their staff up for working from home?’
It is.
Most MPs won’t need to use most of it.
But if all their staff worked on desktops, and needed laptops- then they’ll probably need to use some of it.

It's the equivalent of any company providing a budget for work from home supplies.
DH has up to £100 for a monitor stand or keyboard etc, but they all had laptops and don't need to print.

Some mp's staff will need to buy a lot- lockable filing cabinet/laptop maybe a desk chair, mobile phone and sim etc.

I wish people would save their rage.