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Matt Hancock defends spending almost £50,000 on Bong Bong’s Filipino takeaways
Health secretary says orders for staff were ‘possibly the best value food you can get’
Just nine orders costing £43,348 were placed at the fashionable “Filipino-inspired” eatery during April – and another £4,179-worth of orders placed in March, according to spending data requested by the Daily Mail and the TaxPayers’ Alliance.
“When people are working 18 hours a day … in the middle of a pandemic, of course I’m going to feed them,” he told Sky News. “It’s possibly the best value food you can get in terms of allowing people working so hard to tackle this virus.”
Biting the hand that feeds IT
