Claim: MPs get £25 per day food allowance. That adds up to £845,000 per year for all MPs.
Fact-check: MPs can only claim £25 a day for food if they stay overnight outside London or their constituency - Full Fact
Verdict: mps can only claim this allowance for food if they stay overnight outside their constituency or london for parliamentary work. this is not what they can claim for every day of working in parliament, so this larger figure is meaningless.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Grace Rahman
Date published: 2020-10-26T00:00:00