§ Lord Beaumont of Whitleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they have access to the data held by the insurance industry on the number of claims made against subsidence and, if so, whether they will publish it.
§ The Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry (Lord Simon of Highbury)Figures for individual claims made are not available. The following table was compiled by the Subsidence Claims Advisory Bureau from insurance industry figures and shows the total value of subsidence claims from 1975.
Domestic Subsidence Claims Year £ million 1975 5 1976 55 1977 20 1978 20 1979 25 1980 35 1981 35 1982 45 1983 80 1984 95 1985 95 1986 95 1987 90 1988 90 1989 250 1990 506 1991 540 1992 259 1993 134 1994 125 1995 326 1996 333