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The Bedroom Tax vote: Sticking the knife into the LibDems

By admin on November 12, 2013 • ( 6 Comments )

And so it came to pass. Almost as you would have anticipated. Labour’s bid to win today’s vote against the so-called “bedroom tax” was defeated. There was speculation during the day about how many Liberal Democrats would vote with Labour. The answer, when it came, was two. The […]

Recalibrating the savings from the bedroom tax

By admin on October 15, 2013

To be fair to the DWP, ex ante assessment of the impacts of policy change is difficult. Especially when the impacts rely upon behavioural effects that are unknown and unknowable in advance. So when it modelled the savings from the implementation of the so-called bedroom tax it was […]

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