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However, we have two qualifications. First, these measures increase the maximum available payments by only 30%. The caps have not been increased, as we have heard, since 2008, since when consumer price index inflation has shown a rise of around 64%. That is a hefty shortfall. More than anything, this is a matter of principle. While we agree with this step to increase maximum compensation payments, we do not endorse or agree with the Ministry of Justice’s reasoning that raising the limit in line with inflation going forward, or indeed looking back, would be to pay too little regard to the public purse.