MP's want £25 a day for food?

£25 would feed me for a week so long as I stayed away from junk foods. As for allowances they should be scraped and each seat should have a set wage which takes into account travel and the costs that that incures. Along with an admin set cost which they can do what ever they like with, if they pocket the lot chance is they are going to loss their seat come the next election.
 
mattheman said:
you need to prove you spent it, they dont.
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That depends on your employer. My mum works away from home and gets a set amount for food per day she is away, regardless of how much she spends. The whole amount gets spent when she has to stay in hotels because she's forced to eat out.

I think £25 per day is reasonable if you've got to eat out.
 
Vixen said:
That depends on your employer. My mum works away from home and gets a set amount for food per day she is away, regardless of how much she spends. The whole amount gets spent when she has to stay in hotels because she's forced to eat out.

I think £25 per day is reasonable if you've got to eat out.
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thats quite common for long stints away from home. I know we can negotiate a fixed daily allowance if we work away from home for extended periods of time. It doesn't surprise me MPs get an allowance as opposed to claiming receipts given the sheer amount of time they spend away from 'home'

25 for dinner isn't bad, although if you stay in enough business hotels you realize that most hotels price their meals at unsurprisingly around £25 per head.
 
AcidHell2 said:
plenty of people get £25 when working away for food allowence. Several of us have already said we get this.
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So do I, and frankly it feels like a free gift. Last night for example, I enjoyed a three course meal in a Thai restaurant in York. I know London is more expensive, but I could have had a much cheaper meal.
 
Nothing wrong with £25 a day for food expenses when away from home.

The question is, "what is their definition of a Home"?

Is it their home constituency? So everytime they go to london they could get £25 for their meals?

Or is the second home also count as home? If i were a MP, logic would mean I would put the second home in London as that is where i do most of my business outside my home county. If that's the case then they shouldn't get paid £25 for going to London, if they do then it brings the question of the second home into question.
 
Just realise it is a food allowance for a second...........................

If you word it differently, ie housing allowence, then it could and should not be allowed,
which is why it is called a food allowence. The scheeming ********.
 
What a load of rollocks.

£25 a day for food, are you lot mad?

Anyone justifying that kind of expense on food is crazy. I'd be hard pressed to spend that in a day on food for myself and my other half and we eat very well and healthily.

£5.00 each meal is (more than!)enough.

If they want to indulge in fancy food then they take it out their own pocket. At the end of the day, this is taxpayers money. Im willing to subsidise(at the most!) a bowl of cereal for breakky, a sandwich for lunch and a 1 course meal for dinner. No Swearing! me if im gonna pay some 65K MP to wine and dine himself when he isnt at home, just because he's given a free ticket.


FWIW £5.00/meal is my own daily allowance and im sensible enough to realise
that my job shouldnt pay for me to stay alive. I can do that on my own thank you very much without having to leech unecessarily from the coffers.

And People wonder why the system is so screwed up and politicians get a bad name.

Give some people an inch and they will take a yard, politicans(yeah generalisation) will go for the mile.

Anotehr thing to factor in is that public spending is shambles, if this was any company so far in the red as the UK is, you can bet your life Expenses would be clamped down on hard. Absolutely overdue that this unnecessary spend is getting the mass public attention that it deserves. These MP's should be setting an example to the rest of the UK and currentlly the example they are setting is to leech every penny you can get from the system, hardly a quality I would want in my company.
 
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Be quite easy for an MP to spend that much in London everyday if they are just going to eat out constantly.

Coffee & Pastry from Starbucks - £4.50

Sandwich, Crisps, treat and drink from Pret - £7.50

Another Starbucks Coffee - £3.50

Leaves around a tenner to spend in M&S on a meal, or a takeaway from somewhere for one.


Point is though, most other people have to survive on their wages to be able to eat. Unless they have clients and the company is willing to reimburse for it.

MPs should have this kind of thing included in their wage, not as an extra. The other problem that then rises again with this and greedy fingers is that there are no doubt some MPs who are quite healthy, who prepare their own lunches and take to work. No doubt though, they would happily still take that £25 a day and invest it somewhere... then the problem starts again.
 
Sorry to be argumentative on your example but are the coffee's necessary or are they a luxury, they could just as easily fill up a bottle of water from home/tap and drink that.

It's a luxury and they should pay for it outta their own wallet. I know I do and would. Honestly how they can have the nerve to claim that kind of stuff back infuriates me. If every MP did it it would amount to quite a hefty sum over the year for taxpayers subsidising their caffiene addiction!
 
As a contractor working away from home , under the tax laws I am allowed to claim an extra £5 per day while I am away from home 'subsistance' against my tax allowance , and thats it !

All other expenses like travel and accommodation I can claim back the VAT I have paid for a limited time i.e. 18 months, but have to account for every penny.

Now these useless scum get this £25 per day allowance TAX FREE :mad: In essence they all get a 6K a year payrise that they don't have to account for.

This country is becoming a bigger cesspit by the day :mad::mad:
 
PMKeates said:
Sure, if you know the area, where to go, the area's cheap etc. £5/meal is just not realistic in certain parts of the world... parts that MPs are likely going to be.
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If MP's are anywhere out of the ordinary they are usually invited by others and meals subsidised by the inviter.

They dont go travelling round for the sake of it (or maybe they do!).
 
As i have stated before Nothing will change.

Human nature as it is........Grab Grab Grab

The people have to do somthing,,,, and no i don't mean by voting.

All you then get is another party doing the same scams.

All of this "make sure you vote to change things" is just that A SCAM.

Your vote means nowt.

What would you do in power?........just what you were allowed to get away with, and when would you stop abusing that power?.NEVER, because you ain't breaking no laws.

What laws? why the ones you put in place.

Lets keep screwing these mugs for every penny, oh and earnings related pension we can get because once we have it they can't take it back. Just ask that bank manager whats his castle, i mean whats his name.
 
Tenzen said:
If MP's are anywhere out of the ordinary they are usually invited by others and meals subsidised by the inviter.

They dont go travelling round for the sake of it (or maybe they do!).
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But its important they travel to things like town twinning junkets to Rio which as we all know is twinned with Slough :rolleyes:

And to cap it all when they get found out to be useless, sorry, 'lose their seat', they get paid another huge lump sum for epic failure !

It beggars belief :mad::mad:
 
Tenzen said:
£5.00 each meal is (more than!)enough.

FWIW £5.00/meal is my own daily allowance and im sensible enough to realise
that my job shouldnt pay for me to stay alive.
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Ok firstly:

a) Not everyone is a student, works shacking shelves, lives on a shoestring budget, or enjoys bringing new meaning to the word 'frugal'.. despite what people on here would love to think. A lot of people don't blink on spending a tenner on some nice meat and veg, and that's cooking at home.

b) It is COMMON, ie: MANY companies give such a food allowance to employees when on away trips. It gets you a meal in the hotel bar and a couple of drinks, it's hardly spendageddon for your average business, and zyou want your employee to be comfortable while out on business. I'm not denying MP's extract the urine on an epic scale,b but this is not one of those things which warrants a witch-hunt.

Honestly, the drama in this place... :D
 
Iris and Peter Robinson, Husband and Wife MP team from N.Ireland claimed £3200 each in food expenses for the 6 months period that was recently published. This change won't affect them as they were already claiming roughly the amount now being offered.

At the end of the day, every has to eat. No-one can claim food as an expense, I can't claim it as tax deducatable, which is how expenses work for everyone else, rather than FULL REBATE in MPs case.

If food is such an issue, give them a free lunch voucher at the house of commons resturant, which aparently serves lovely (already subsidised) food. So if they are present in the commons, give them a free meal, if they are not, fend for themselves.

Job done.
 
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