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  I'm surprised that this is the first case. When I first heard about the bedroom tax, this was my initial thought. It's easy to define a bathroom and a kitchen (without both it is hardly accommodation) but defining other room useis slightly harder. I remember renting a house as a student and due to all wanting a room on the same side of the house, we rearranged the use, this caused the landlady to suggest increasing the rent as we had an extra bedroom...which of course we didn't, we were just using a room downstairs for a bedroom and freeing up one upstairs. It's funny how stuffy we are as a nation when it come to how we perceive houses.
  
  This 'reform' is just another knee jerk, poorly conceived IDS special. To his defence, he does find definitions quite hard; he even found it hard to define which university he went to in Perugia! At least he has removed that oil painting of himself from his website - As this happened around the same time as the £53 comment, I can only thinks that it cost more.
  
  I have no doubt we need reform, but can we at least have reform that is long term, not quick fix and is actually made by people with an idea of the world around them i.e. not IDS.

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