OK so is there any rationale in this,its not that those furthest away claimed most.Its not that ministers claimed most.So why did they claim what they did and what was it for - weekly shop,entertaining -pass may be someone out there knows
Here they are Hat Tip Western Mail.
Brian Gibbons
Labour, Aberavon
Total food claim £3,861.90
Mark Isherwood
Conservative, North Wales
Total food claim £3,126.30
Elin Jones
Plaid Cymru, Ceredigion
Total food claim £3,095.65
Janet Ryder
Plaid Cymru, North Wales
Total food claim £2,911.75
Ann Jones
Labour, Vale of Clwyd
Total food claim £2,881.10
Rhodri Glyn Thomas
Plaid Cymru, Carmarthen East & Dinefwr
Total food claim £2,819.80
Alun Ffred Jones
Plaid Cymru, Arfon
Total food claim £2,543.95
Huw Lewis
Labour, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
Total food claim £2,513.30
Dafydd Elis-Thomas
Plaid Cymru, Meirionnydd Nant Conwy
Total food claim £2,329.40
Brynle Williams
Conservative, North Wales
Total food claim £2,145.53
Val Lloyd
Labour, Swansea East
Total food claim £2,114.85
Nerys Evans
Plaid Cymru, Mid & West Wales
Total food claim £2,084.20
Ieuan Wyn Jones
Plaid Cymru, Ynys Mon
Total food claim £1,992.57
Eleanor Burnham
Liberal Democrat, North Wales
Total food claim £1,960.60
Lesley Griffiths
Labour, Wrexham
Total food claim £1,777.70
Gareth Jones
Plaid Cymru, Aberconwy
Total food claim £1,777.70
Mick Bates
Liberal Democrat, Montgomeryshire
Total food claim £1,348.60
Peter Black
Liberal Democrat, South Wales West
Total food claim £1,072.75
Mike German
Liberal Democrat, South Wales East
Total food claim £950.15
Nick Ramsay
Conservative, Monmouth
Total food claim £820.50
Jocelyn Davies
Plaid Cymru, South Wales East
Total food claim £735.60
Jeff Cuthbert
Labour, Caerphilly
Total food claim £613
Sandra Mewies
Labour, Delyn
Total food claim £613
Alun Cairns
Conservative, South Wales West
Total food claim £490.40
Jonathan Morgan
Conservative, Cardiff North
Total food claim £452.56
Kirsty Williams
Liberal Democrat, Brecon & Radnorshire
Total food claim £367.80
Alun Davies
Labour, Mid & West Wales
Total food claim £245.20
Karen Sinclair
Labour, Clwyd South
Total food claim £183.90
David Melding
Conservative, South Wales Central
Total food claim £169.25
Trish Law
Independent, Blaenau Gwent
Total food claim £153.25
Nick Bourne
Conservative, Mid & West Wales
Total food claim £122.60
John Griffiths
Labour, Newport East
Total food claim £91.95
Jenny Randerson
Liberal Democrat, Cardiff Central
Total food claim £91.95
Paul Davies
Conservative, Preseli Pembrokeshire
Total food claim £61.30
Joyce Watson
Labour, Mid & West Wales
Total food claim £61.30
William Graham
Conservative, South East Wales
Total food claim £45.17
Angela Burns
Conservative, Carmarthen West & S Pembrokeshire
Total food claim £30.65
Andrew RT Davies
Conservative, South Wales Central
Total food claim £30.65
Carwyn Jones
Labour, Bridgend
Total food claim £30.65
Darren Millar
Conservative, Clwyd West
Total food claim £30.65
Leighton Andrews
Labour, Rhondda
Total food claim £0
Mohammad Asghar
Plaid Cymru, South Wales East
Total food claim £0
Lorraine Barrett
Labour, Cardiff South & Penarth
Total food claim £0
Rosemary Butler
Labour, Newport West
Total food claim £0
Christine Chapman
Labour, Cynon Valley
Total food claim £0
Jane Davidson
Labour, Pontypridd
Total food claim £0
Andrew Davies
Labour, Swansea West
Total food claim £0
Chris Franks
Plaid Cymru, South Wales Central
Total food claim £0
Janice Gregory
Labour, Ogmore
Total food claim £0
Edwina Hart
Labour, Gower
Total food claim £0
Jane Hutt
Labour, Vale of Glamorgan
Total food claim £0
Irene James
Labour, Islwyn
Total food claim £0
Bethan Jenkins
Plaid Cymru, South Wales West
Total food claim £0
Helen Mary Jones
Plaid Cymru, Llanelli
Total food claim £0
Dai Lloyd
Plaid Cymru, South Wales West
Total food claim £0
Rhodri Morgan
Labour, Cardiff West
Total food claim £0
Lynne Neagle
Labour, Torfaen
Total food claim £0
Carl Sargeant
Labour, Alyn and Deeside
Total food claim £0
Gwenda Thomas
Labour, Neath
Total food claim £0
Leanne Wood
Plaid Cymru, South Wales Central
Total food claim £0
Overall total: £48,749.13
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its taking the piss i'm afraid, especially when they have a fully funded canteen in the Assembly, is the food not good enough for the little darlings that they have to sop in Marks and Spencer.
I'm fascinated by the duplicates. Did they eat together and divvy up the bill? And what about the zero claims? Was that because their constituency sent them with packed lunches? All too, too interesting.
Mad
These claims are NOT for food.
All the claims you have listed are for Meals/Subsistence.
There is a big difference.
Will you please amend your original post to make this clear?
well done to all those AM's who scored null point (0).
as for those hitting £500 and over - what a disgrace. No understanding of their constituents who struggle to pay for food, and have to go to stores like Lidl, Aldi and Netto for cheaper food. Shameful, disgraceful.
could we all have a special £50 a week allowance for food, please??
Any of those AM's who spout about child poverty in this list (except the 0's) - they are hypocrites!!
Anon - they are listed as food in the Western Mail ,may be you should take your query up with them.
Define subsistence.
In my book that's food or food related.
Normally expenses claims are listed as Accommodation ,travel and subsistence
Are these people humungously fat? Perhaps it would be cheaper to send nutritionists and personal trainers around to get them fit and stop earing so much! It would be cheaper in the long run!
anon start your own blog if you want to parrot the Welsh Assembly Government and AM's line that these claims for food, travel, accomodation are justified.
I for one am glad that blogs exist to give alternative views to the pap that the Government churns out daily that is so often swallowed whole by the welsh media.
Well there is a difference between food and subsistence, because subsistence may include food, but subsistence is claimed when one is travelling for work purposes. Thus the canteen is not reelvant here.
So: a minister with lots of travelling, or an AM with lots of travelling, is entitled to claim subsistence - I claim subsistence when I am working away form home or office, and so do many of the self-righteous kneejerk "all politicians are crap" clones who pretend to be outraged by subsistence claims.
I know that Western Mail journalists certainly do...
Let's grow up - scrutinise the claims instead of just jumping n the attack any politician that moves bandwagon.
AMs are better value than MPs and MPs have been riding a hell of a gravy train for years, not to mention centuries.
As for the brave anons who say the caims are unjustified, I'd say this - some of them probably are, which is why it's important to work out which, whose, and why, instead of belting out thicko holier than thou they're all the same Sun Reader bullshit.
They already get a great salary and brilliant benefits and they bill us for food too.
Just with these some ministers haven't claimed anything and some back benchers have claimed lots.
Its not even that those who live far away have claimed more than thoe who live close.
So as VM says whats ,what she is asking the question.No one is answeering tho.
Well, this has stirred up the invective, hasn't it?
I take the point about subsistence being different to food; food being what you would normally consume when at home or at your normal place of work. Food is a prerequisite of life whether you are carrying out public duties or not. Subsistence is therefore tightly correlated to being away from your place of work. Now what are those AMs doing that takes them away from their normal place of work in comparison to those who claim nothing. Are they away from their normal place of work creating value for the people of Wales? Therefore, is the corollary true that those who claim nothing are not engaged on similar value creating activities? Or are they able to do so while remaining at their normal place of work?
You see whether it's subsistence or plain old food, it's still something they're claiming as an expense. And as such, it will be paid from public funds. So it's all about transparency, irrespective of whether they are valid claims or whether they are excellent and devoted AMs.
I'm delighted to see that I've been put in the "Sun Reader" category.
"It's all about transparency." Yes it is, which is why the figures have been released by AMs , whereas MPs spent their time trying to stop us seeing anything, and still managed to succeed in having half their expenses blacked out.
My MP's expenses sheet looks like a bloody crossword, full of blanks and black squares. Difference is, crosswords have clues in them.
I'll take Ams and their transparency over the pisspoor self-serving MPs any day.
I work in a system - higher education - where my Vice Chancellor gets paid over 100 K a year, a chauffeur, massive expenses, and spends his time advising New Labour on how to channel more money into universities. We - the peopel who teach - we get 1/4 of that, share offices and eat pre-made sandwiches. This is the same across the UK - in councils, businesses, schools and colleges. Our public services are run for private profit but bailed out by taxpayers; our banks too.
Frankly, I've got more pressing claims and transparency issues to deal with than jumping on an anti-politician bandwagon because the pisspoor Western Mail (which also tenders for assembly financial aid) and the tabloids are telling me to get angry about it.
I'm interested in disentangling right claims from false claims, and working out how the system can be made better so that the voters get value and the politicians can do the work they were elected to do.
It was actually food They are allowed £30 plus a day for food without any receipts
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