| Heading: |
Floods: Insurance |
| Question ID: |
1760448 |
| UIN: |
27724 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5296 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Freddie van Mierlo
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Freddie van Mierlo
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making it mandatory for insurers participating in the Flood Re scheme to provide insurance to properties at risk of flooding. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-05 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4645 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Emma Hardy
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Emma Hardy
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| Answer text: |
Flood Re is a joint government and industry flood reinsurance scheme established specifically to help UK households at high risk of flooding to access affordable insurance through their insurance provider. In 2023/24, Flood Re provided cover for over 280,... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |