I clearly remember (while sat in the halls of power just down from Courtney's desk at 1 Gp) having to fill out a seemingly endless questionnaire about lifestyle etc. (Just like the health and well being ones you get if you fly deafening jets - but ten times longer)
The premise was that to accurately calculate LOA there needed to be a constant update as to how people lived in the UK - which in turn told you how more or less expensive that was overseas.
I was actually impressed at how scientific the calculation must have been. I am equally unimpressed by the fairly arbitrary cuts. How can one calculate something to the nearest pence - then just lop it in half?
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