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.

Oh, so the 26 thousand for expenses are not enough then?

I dint know if you have a dog in this, but shouting at the electorate isn’t very helpful.

@ChardonnaysPetDragon

Oh, so the 26 thousand for expenses are not enough then?

Quite a few MPs have already publically stated that they won't need to use the new uplift for this specific situation.

JC even said 'his' £10k should be given to the NHS. What an absolute brick.

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@ChardonnaysPetDragon dog?

Dog, indeed!

Sorry, have been at the it practically a lockdown requirement.

Brick?

Is that rhyming slang?

"brickof a man - A good, solid, substantial person that you can rely upon".

It’s outrageous.
Many people are now working from home without an extra allowance.
Most people already have a computer and a phone and desk, allowing them to work from home.
So out of touch it’s unreal.

@fizzaftersix - have you understood it is for the MP's staff in the main?

Oh, I thought of something rhyming with it.

@FizzAfterSix but this isn’t most people, and you need more than just “a computer” or “a phone”. Read the thread.....

It should be covered by existing generous expenses allowances.

There could be a small fund which MPs can apply to if their £26,000 isn't enough, or funds usually allowed for travel, food, accommodation etc could be diveted.

It would be the same outcome - all these MPs that won't need it - but without pissing people off with the incompetent government and lacklustre oppostion more than they already are.

Much easier to administrate too.

It wasn't great for Matt Hancock to follow this by berating nurses for using too much PPE and suggesting that all the HCPs who are ill or have lost their lives from CV19 might not have caught the virus at work.

Also, all those employed by MPs receiving abuse... It's horrible, people shouldn't be subjected to that at work. Transport workers, health and social care staff, retail workers and anyone else who comes into contact with the general public will only empathise with the distress that this causes.

But neither should people be subjected to contracting a virus that could kill them or someone in their family because MPs weren't doing their jobs properly in the first place.

Whichever way you look at it 10k is a very generous allowance to WFH, even if its spread between MP and a small staff. DH is WFH and using our home pc and our own desk ,chair , heating and broadband without any extra money or equipment from work. Im also WFH but have work laptop. I'd be surprised if MPs dont have work laptops already.

And yet I’ve had to work from home, sat on my bedroom floor with my laptop and trying to homeschool 2 children and just grateful I still have a job.

@Runnerduck34

Whichever way you look at it 10k is a very generous allowance to WFH, even if its spread between MP and a small staff.

They're not being 'given' £10k!!!!! They will be allowed to spend UP TO £10k extra on specific needs, to be claimed back on expenses. If they don't need it specifically for enabling their office to staff to WFH, they won't be using it, nor will the expenditure be reimbursed if IPSA don't agree it was required.

DH is WFH and using our home pc and our own desk ,chair , heating and broadband without any extra money or equipment from work. Im also WFH but have work laptop. I'd be surprised if MPs dont have work laptops already.

I'm sure they do too. But this isn't just about the MPs, it's about their office staff. Many of those just might NOT have a laptop/printer, desk/office chair at their disposal. And even if they do have laptops, are you comfortable with them downloading secure government/constituency data onto their own devices?

I do wish that other sectors told to work from home, (schools?) had been allocated £10,000 so that any teachers that needed a laptop to teach with/set work via, would be able to.