'High soldier payouts' pledge
Updated on 11 October 2007
An MoD promise to increase compensation to badly wounded soldiers receives a lukewarm response.
The ministry of defence is to increase its compensation payments for seriously wounded soldiers. They will be compensated for all their injuries up to the full £285,000 lump sum payment.
The move follows strong criticism of the current payments by the families of those who have suffered dreadful injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But the mother of Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson, whose plight highlighted the issue, has given only a lukewarm welcome to the change.
Channel 4 News spoke to the mother of Ben Parkinson, Diane Dernie. The programme then put her points to the defence minister, Derek Twigg.
