MPN, correct. Then there is the X Factor: I don't know what that is now or which way it goes but it serves as another fudge factor. Also food and accommodation charges and how these impact on short trips, detachments etc.
Certainly the expectation was that an away day should not see you out of pocket but that admin trying to ensure that was a real embuggerance. Before I departed I had to get prior approval for T&S for a trip ordered by the very man that ordered the trip.
I used to use a standard claim to bugger him about though I often didn't spend my allowance which completely buggered up his forward planning and then submitted claims late
