RB,
It is a Flybe rule; that was the point of my post. MPL includes various amounts of hours in aircraft, 85 at Oxford and a similar number at FTE.
There are no such limits for MPL, but since the whole point is to train students in pairs, which you can't do in an aircraft, there's no point in overdoing the non-simulated hours. Such a syllabus does exist; it's called a CPL/IR!