Question follow-through · 22219
Small Businesses: Insurance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of putting a cap on insurance costs for small businesses.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jan 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of putting a cap on insurance costs for small businesses.
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jan 2025
Answer published
Insurers make commercial decisions about the terms on which they will offer cover following an assessment of the relevant risks. This is usually informed by the insurer’s claims experience and other industry-wide statistics. The Government does not usuall...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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