MPs are pressing for an 11% pay rise (Picture: Reuters)

MPs are fighting plans to cut their £15 evening meal allowance, as well as claims for taxis and biscuits.

Even as they are pressing for an 11 per cent pay rise – taking salaries to £73,700 – they are defending the right to get an overnight hotel room on late sittings in the Commons.

Members on the standards committee said the plans would strip them of expenses most companies would reimburse.

Commons watchdog, the independent parliamentary standards authority, is thought to be close to signing off the £7,300 pay rise but the £4.6million extra salary costs would be offset by restrictions to pensions, golden goodbyes, and expenses.




MPs could be allowed to book hotels only after 1am, for example.

There would also be a crackdown on claims for running two homes, including ending covering contents insurance costs, and MPs would also be banned from charging the taxpayer for tea and biscuits.

David Cameron’s spokesman said: ‘The prime minister’s view is that the cost of politics should go down not up.’