my services are more than £100 by the time you add the stuff that needs doing, and that's on a 10year ford fiesta. Seems reasonable to save some each month for it.
hasn't the OP already explained what she meant by 'pocket money'? Other people might use different terms for it, but the sort of thing that people choose to spend on themselves/children, not absolutely essentials, but nice things to have - I know that I spend some amount each month on things like books, maybe a concert ticket, maybe some nicer toiletry item than the supermarket brand, coffees out with a friend, bar of chocolate at the station, newspapers, drink, new pen, stamps, bus ticket, screen protector for my phone, etc, to give examples of things just from this past couple of weeks. And I imagine most people in a family would want some money of their own for similar things, that you don't always want to count in one of the categories - and for children, too, loads of things that you might buy for them on a day-to-day basis that don't fit neatly into some other heading. Maybe pockey money isn't the best term, if it makes people think of only frivolous things, but it seems sensible to me to allocate an amount in a budget for it, because people do buy that sort of thing, often for cash, and you might as well plan for it than wonder at the end of the week where the money has gone.
However, that doesn't mean it's not a category that is worth cutting down on, maybe drastically, if needed!