Matt Hancock is claiming an extra £13,200 a year in expenses from the taxpayer to rent a home with his lover after quitting his marital home. The Mirror reports that the former Health Secretary has been claiming £3,300 a month for a property in London since September, which is 50% more than his previous one for a house in his constituency.
He started claiming on the new home six months ago and over the course of a year it will add an extra £13,200 to his expenses claim. It comes as a register of MPs' interests showed that Mr Hancock, who he earned £320,000 for appearing on the TV reality show I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here, has earned more than £440,000 in a year in addition to his £84,144 MP’s salary.
Mr Hancock’s lover Gina Coladangelo and her estranged husband Oliver Tress sold their London home for £7.5m at the start of the year. Mr Hancock left his family home in Willesden, North West London, in June 2021 after pictures emerged of him kissing Ms Coladangelo during lockdown in his office.
