Part of Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:30 am on 10 February 2004.
The Minister refers to one part of the report, which comes after several other parts in which the Select Committee criticises the scheme. The very next sentence after the one that he just quoted states:
''In practice, however, the way in which payments will be determined risks being unhelpfully mechanistic.''
The Minister was present in the Chamber when the hon. Member for Dunfermline, West (Rachel Squire), who was deputising for the Chairman, made a most courageous speech making it clear that the Committee was very unhappy with the overall balance of the compensation payment.