Floods: Insurance

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 20 November 2014.

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Photo of Diana R. Johnson Diana R. Johnson Shadow Minister (Home Affairs)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2014 to Question 213979, what steps she has taken to gather evidence to inform her Department's monitoring of the insurance market; and whether there will be an opportunity for (a) hon. Members, (b) small businesses and (c) members of the public to inform her Department's work in this area.

Photo of Dan Rogerson Dan Rogerson The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Evidence on the availability of flood insurance has been provided and considered by Defra at various stages, including during the passage of the Water Act 2014 through Parliament and following the Downing Street Floods summit on 18 February.

I met representatives of small businesses in June to listen to their concerns and to provide an outline of our plans for market monitoring. Findings of the Defra research contract will be published next year. I intend to have another meeting when this work is completed.

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