Critical Illness Insurance

HC Deb 18 November 1997 vol 301 c105W

Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what estimates she has made of the current number of people who have taken out critical illness insurance; and what the figure was in 1987.[15970]

Mr. Ian McCartney

I understand that the Association of British Insurers estimate that in 1996 some 93,000 new policies for critical illness insurance were written in the UK, and that some £50 million of premium was paid for them. No other estimates, or corresponding ones for 1987, are available.