Lord Freud was today quizzed on how many homes he owned and how many bedrooms he had in a heated debate on welfare reform, as he set out the Government's intentions to reduce benefit expenditure and introduce Universal Credit from next October. The delegate who quizzed the minister at the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) conference in Manchester had earlier highlighted the "geographical inequality" of some of the benefit reforms. Referring to the social size criteria, which is set to hit so...