One in three parliamentarians has an allergy. And yet when Allergy UK, the nation’s leading patient charity on allergy, held a reception in Parliament recently, even the parliamentary authorities struggled to cater for many of the attendees with food allergies.
That’s not a criticism of the parliamentary catering service, it’s a demonstration of how difficult life can be for those with allergies and how it’s high time the condition was taken more seriously.
There ought to be plenty of appetite in Parliament to tackle this. A survey of parliamentarians by YouGov, commissioned by Allergy UK, showed that 30 per cent of MPs have an allergy and 61 per cent have a close friend or family member with an allergy.
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