I can answer that. It is a general way across the world that social scientists compare family to family of different sizes so there are ways of weighting each child or adult in the family.
Welfare Reform and Work Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Freud
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 9 December 2015.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Welfare Reform and Work Bill.
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