MPs returning to Westminster next week will be able to take a taxi to work with taxpayers picking up the bill, the expenses watchdog has declared.
The changes to the rules, announced by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority who oversee MPs expenses, are designed allow parliamentarians to avoid public transport when the Commons returns next week.
But some MPs warned that the change may end up looking like there was one rule for them and another for their constituents.
Updated guidance from IPSA to MPs said in the light of the "exceptional circumstances" of coronavirus they would "pay for such costs relating to journeys to Westminster from a London area home, between 2 June and the start of the summer recess in July".
The guidance adds that "MPs are expected to have regard to value for money in their claims" and warns that it could end up being taxed as a "benefit-in-kind".
But Warrington North MP Charlotte Nichols said that while getting people to work safely was important that it couldn't be one rule for politicians and another for the public.
She told the Mirror: "I've had constituents who face being left heavily out of pocket because they have to get a taxi to work - because public transport isn't running or it isn't safe.
"It cannot be one rule for MPs and another for the public.
"Ministers need to ask themselves if it isn't safe for MPs to be on public transport why is safe enough for our constituents or the people who work to deliver these services?"
John Phillips, GMB Acting General Secretary, told the Mirror: "We want everyone to get to work safely, but here we go again with one rule for people in Westminster and another rule for the rest of us.
"If MPs need taxi fares paid for to get to work safely, then it follows that care workers on minimum wage need taxis to get to work safely - we look forward to the Government's upcoming announcement on that."
Opposition MPs have already said that an early return to business as usual in Parliament is unwelcome.
But their concerns were ignored by the Government - who refused to agree to extend rules that allowed a 'hybrid' parliament with some MPs joining over a video link and others sitting in the chamber.
No more than 50 MPs are allowed in the Chamber at any one time under social distancing rules.
Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg said he wanted MPs to return to "physical ways of working" as quickly as possible after Parliament resumes, to "set an example" to the public.
