{"id":674916,"date":"2026-01-05T07:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/674916\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:10:24","slug":"gazette-issued-for-bill-to-abolish-mps-pensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/674916\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazette issued for bill to abolish MPs\u2019 pensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Fsy0j\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Twitter\" class=\"heateor_sss_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Gazette%20issued%20for%20bill%20to%20abolish%20MPs%E2%80%99%20pensions&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Fsy0j\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Whatsapp\" class=\"heateor_sss_whatsapp\" href=\"https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=Gazette%20issued%20for%20bill%20to%20abolish%20MPs%E2%80%99%20pensions%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Fsy0j\" title=\"Whatsapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.lk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/newswire-icon.jpg\" style=\"width:108px; height:20px; margin-top:10px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-217709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_20260104_170624_Chrome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"358\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The gazette notification relating to the proposed bill to abolish the pensions of Members of Parliament has been issued, marking a key step toward legislative action on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>According to the gazette, the bill seeks to repeal provisions that currently allow former MPs to receive parliamentary pensions, a benefit that has been the subject of longstanding public debate and criticism.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-217707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG-20260104-WA0049.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"881\"\/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-217708\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG-20260104-WA0050.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"783\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The gazette notification relating to the proposed bill to abolish the pensions of Members of Parliament has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,474,2499,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-674916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-personal-finance","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115841245230051134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}