Articles about DEFRA (0-50 of 53)

  • Vermi-gold Sustainable Solid Waste Management Plans
    By: sapling0128 | - Vermi gold sustainable solid waste management plans in India provides a world best class technology for recycling organic waste. Disaster based vermin culture system recycles all their canteen kitchen waste, card board waste and office paper waste, waste of grass and leave. The company provides a world class eco friendly solid waste management system in India and incorporates environmental best practice technologies .The Vermi gold recycling organic waste system has been jointly developed by Tat ...
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  • What Exactly Is A Rural Area And Why Should We Care 3
    By: Sabina Kucz | - Rural areas are designated by census as those areas that do not lie inside an urbanized area or urban cluster. NCES has classified all schools into one of these twelve categories based on schools' actual addresses and their corresponding coordinates of latitude and longitude. Not only does this mean that the location of any school can be identified precisely, but also that distance measures can be used to identify town and rural subtypes."

    Rural health definitions can be different ...

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  • Effective Tips To Bear While Travelling To Usa With Pets
    By: Jack Olivor | - Planning holidays to USA but cant leave your little-four-legged member alone at home, so simply take him and enjoy!! All you have to do is to follow the easy tips that ensure trouble-free travel with your pets.

    Before laying hands on cheap flights to USA and hopping on the flight, be certain about some essential things that help in overcoming different hurdles while travelling to the country.

    Vaccination is the first thing to do before travelling with a pet to American ...

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  • Why Do Wasp Problems Occur And How Do I Choose A Reliable Pest Control Company To Deal With The Prob
    By: Northern Light Media | - Wasps operate differently throughout the seasons. In the winter months, when the weather is cold, wasps will look to gain shelter, whereas as the weather becomes warmer, normally in early spring, wasps become more active. The key to trying to reduce the risk of encountering a wasp nest is to put measures in place that prevents wasps gaining access to lofts, garages and sheds.

    Typically wasps will gain access to lofts through gaps in the guttering, roofline and soffits and sometimes ...

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  • Scotland Sets Out Zero Waste Legislative Plans
    By: Cawleys Waste Management | - The Policy Statement Zero Waste Regulations outlines the legislative framework the Government will use to underpin its ambitions for a Zero Waste Scotland, which were originally outlined last June in its Zero Waste Plan

    A total ban on sending biodegradable waste to landfill by 2020 and a requirement for most local authorities to introduce food waste collections by 2015 are among the key requirements in the Scottish Governments Zero Waste legislative plans, publish ...

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  • Shopping Locally And Seasonally For Food Can Bring Health Benefits
    By: Alison Withers | - At a time when unemployment continues to rise along with energy prices and other costs food prices in the UK have risen by an average 6% over the course of 2011.

    When, as now, households are being very careful about spending it can seem very difficult to continue to ensure that the diet remains nutritious and healthy.

    The current, tenth, annual British Food Fortnight illustrates ways in which this can be done, by shopping for foods that are in season and produced local ...

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  • Pet Transportation Ensures Your Pooch Gets To You Safely Despite The Biting Distance
    By: Thomas Carlyle | - You are always worried about the fate of your little crawler when you plan an outstation trip and leave it behind. At times, you want a babysitter who can look after it in your absence and then there are times when you wish you had it with you. Leaving it behind in a kennel (in case of a dog) is something your heart does not consent to, for encaging something so precious with so much value in your life is bound to uncalled for.

    What do you do? You are left in no mans land blinki ...

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  • Poor Air Quality In Buildings Can Lead To Serious Health Consequences
    By: Alison Withers | - The World Health Organisation estimates that air pollution causes approximately 2 million premature deaths worldwide each year and is a major environmental risk to health.

    Air pollution outdoors and in is generally outside the control of individuals and where people are gathered in large groups, such as public buildings, offices, industrial units, hospitals or residential homes, maintaining the air quality is likely to be the responsibility of the building's facilities manager.

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  • Consumers And Farmers Will Need To Be Adaptable In The Face Of Unpredictable Weather
    By: Alison Withers | - As they struggle to deal with an increasingly unpredictable climate, price volatility and a demand to increase production farming and food production have never been under greater pressure than they are now.

    There is to be a UK Inside Government conference hosted by Defra (Department for the Environment, Food and Agriculture) in late June, called Meeting the Global Food Security Challenges of the Future Through Science and Innovation.

    In advance of the conference Sir Jo ...

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  • Low Spring Rainfall Is Prompting Fears For Uk Grain Crops After Last Year's Problems In Russia
    By: Alison Withers | - It seems hardly any time since last summer, when world grain crops were depleted because of episodes of extreme weather including drought in Russia and Ukraine and unusually wet weather in Canada.

    Following its drought Russia had already imposed an export ban on its wheat for 2011, a significant amount since the country is the world's fourth largest wheat producer.

    Now the focus of attention has shifted to the UK, where six weeks of unusually dry spring weather have l ...

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  • Its The Weight Of The Waste That Matters
    By: Timothy Capper | - Recycling of aluminium and plastics continues to suffer relative to recycling of heavier materials such as paper, glass, steel and food/yard waste. Local Councils' compliance with recycling targets is based on the percentage of overall household waste that is recycled, by weight, thus 'tipping the scales' towards recycling of heavier materials.

    Councils are incentivised to support recycling. One incentive is to reduce the tax per tonne on waste disposed of in landfills by increasin ...

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  • Mandatory Emissions Reporting
    By: Keri Cooner | - Defra published a report on the issue in November2010, however, with no sign of any decision since then, speculation is mounting that it plans to scale back regulations.

    The Financial Times recently reported that ministers were set to water down the rules in an effort to cut down on red tape. It said the Government was considering whether to limit the system to large companies only. It is one of the pledges of the Coalition to cut the regulatory burden on business.


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  • Paddock Management - Infrastructure Advice
    By: Steve Phillips | - Fencing and gateways for the vast majority of people wooden fences will be the clear choice. However, vinyl is worth considering as a cheaper alternative which also generally requires less maintenance. Strategically placed new gateways can prevent bald patches from developing in your paddock.

    Gateways and fencing - ensure that gateways and fencing are both structurally sound and in good repair. New gateways in sensible positions can reduce poaching and the smooth running of both ...

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  • What Is The Government Doing About Salmonella On Holiday?
    By: Shelley Sonnei | - Every year hundreds of people come back from holiday having contracted serious gastric illness. One of the most common illnesses is salmonella food poisoning. Other illnesses include Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium, Shigella and E-coli which can be contracted from poor food hygiene and contaminated water.

    The issue of Salmonella seems to have last been raised on the Floor of the House of Commons on 22 April 2009. Labour Politician Jim Cunningham put a written to Jane Kennedy the then ...

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  • Arrange Expats Health Insurance Is Important
    By: Deepak Singh | - It is important to begin planning as early as possible for a moving overseas, it is important that you find the requirements for the country you are moving to so don't delay, make sure you get all the information from your new company and that you know how any benefits may be affected.
    Consult your company administrative staff for allowance details, or visit the service websites. In case you are posted overseas you should receive more local information from the company you are posted to. ...

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  • The History Of The Woodburning Stove
    By: Scott Morris | - The History of the Woodburning Stoves

    Is it me or is it hot in here?

    From the time primitive human beings found out how to make fire, he or she had to deal with its capricious temper as well as its inclination to produce choking, life-shortening smoke dust.

    And even after holes in the roof gave way to chimneys, which cleaned the air somewhat, almost all of the effective warmth was still going up in flames.

    It took a surprisingly long time in or ...

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  • Waste Is The New Gold
    By: Charisse Leval | - By focusing on waste it could make it less complicated for more firms to sell their recyclable waste to other firms as a resource, boosting the economy.

    To do this the CBI wants a full audit of waste regulation and says the Government must recognise the importance of waste management facilities to local communities in its planning reforms.

    It also calls for much more cross-governmental cooperation from DEFRA, DECC, BIS, DCLG and HMT beyond the lifetime of the was ...

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  • Five Ways To Cut Those Crippling Energy Price Hikes
    By: Timothy Frodsham | - Inevitably, fuel prices went up just in time for one of the coldest winters on record and at inflation breaking levels to boot. It seems the energy firms are in a constant battle with the banks and The City to be Britains most hated, NPower, Southern Electric, Scottish Power and British Gas all hiked prices on average by 5%. So with remortgage deals at an all time low, it's time for home owners to reclaim their money back and stop lining the pockets of the energy fat cat's, here's a 5 w ...
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  • Woodburning Stoves Market Regulations And Guidance When Installing
    By: Scott Morris | - The woodburning stoves UK market place is still growing with programs just like Grand Designs along with home-improvement programs giving consumer demand for new products in addition to new woodburners.

    Having said that, many individuals still have the opinion of the old-style stove that is "dirty and dusty" when in reality this is very much false.

    Exactly what do you anticipate from a wood burning stove?

    Besides the undeniable fact that the look and exp ...

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  • Selecting The Best Kind Of Multifuel Stove For Your Home
    By: Scott Morris | - How you can Choose the Best Kind of Woodburning Stove for you

    So you have decided that your home needs a woodburning stove; you love the way they look and of course you know that the cosy warmth of real fire in your home will complement the style and atmosphere of the room. If you are thinking of purchasing a woodburning stove to increase your propertys saleability then you are definitely on the right track as the latest research points to the fact that prospective buyers are ver ...

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  • How Can Consumers Tell Whether The Food They Buy Is Healthy?
    By: Alison Withers | - A group of experts on nutrition has recently called into question the basis on which many of us, particularly those concerned about their weight, choose what to buy and eat as if food labelling was not already confusing enough for consumers.

    Calorie counting has been the main measure for assessing a food's impact on weight loss for more than 200 years.

    A calorie is the energy people get from food and eating more calories than our bodies can process increases our weight. ...

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  • Do We Need Organic Certification?
    By: RainforestFoods | - The question were asking is, do we need to have a system in place to ensure that products advertised as organic are actually organic or should we simply trust everyone involved in the organic supply chain to do the right thing? and get rid of certification, cutting out swathes of bureaucracy, checks and EU red tape in the process.

    Its useful to first consider the organic supply chain and what that means. This chain is the collection of steps involved in creating an o ...

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  • Agricultural Law Advice From Uk Agricultural Solicitors
    By: Anna Burgess | - Agricultural Law Advice From UK Agricultural Solicitors
    UK Agricultural Solicitors are at hand to help farmers understand issues surrounding the agricultural laws and business affairs that pertain to rural areas. A passionate and experienced team will assist with matters ranging from family businesses to land laws, diversification and disposal of farmland to corporate farms. Getting advice on these issues will help your farm business prosper.

    The staff there is specifically trai ...

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  • How Do You Choose A Horse For An Indian Wedding?
    By: hasim bham | - How do you choose a horse for an Indian Wedding?

    I have heard a fairytale in which the prince comes to his wedding on a white horse, and takes his bride on his horse to his kingdom... I am not complaining, or discouraging the groom to use a horse on his wedding day, I only want to express a little warning or concern about the safety of the horse and groom I would like to share my experience with you today.

    But to a heatwave most of the wedding took place at night. It is ...

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  • Dog Bite Compensation
    By: Linda C Young | - If a dogs bite that cut off the skin then it will have a risk of infection, if the wound is deep then the risk of infection increases. A dog bite poses the risk of rabies. Most household dogs are given rabies injections but the possibility of infection still exists.

    Tetanus infection can be possibly contracted from an animal bite. The microbe that causes tetanus, lives in the top layers of soil and in the intestinal tracts of cows and horses, and easily infects wounds that cause i ...

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  • Coshh - The Use Of Pesticides In The Agricultural Industry
    By: Dale Allen | - There are a number hazardous products used in the agricultural industry which can be damaging to employees health.

    Such substances include:

    Dusts from plants, animals and compost materials

    Pesticides and feed additives

    Silage making products

    Fertilisers

    Animal diseases

    Vehicle exhaust fumes.

    Pesticides are a particular hazard to human health and will be examined more closely in this article. I ...

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  • Direct Mail Deliverers Meet Recycling Targets Well Ahead Of Schedule
    By: Kevin Longworth | - More than three-quarters of direct mail and marketing material delivered in the UK in 2009 was recycled after being disposed of, putting the country well ahead of targets for reducing the amount of such material going to landfill.

    In 2009, the British government and the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) agreed that, by 2013, 70 per cent of direct mail materials should be recycled. But latest figures show that, not only has that target been easily exceeded, but it has leapt well ah ...

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  • Could The Uk Face Food Scarcity Issues If More Biopesticides Are Not Registered?
    By: Alison Withers | - Meeting growing consumer demand for healthy, natural food will prove difficult for UK fruit and veg growers as long as biopesticide availability continues to lag way behind the EU and the USA.

    The UK is a long way from self-sufficient in food. Between 1988 and 1993, approximately 55% of the fruit and vegetables consumed in the UK were domestically produced. Production subsequently went into decline and in 2006 fell to 33%.

    A total of 152,900 hectares of land is used fo ...

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  • Why Are Our Honey Bees Dying Out In The Uk?
    By: Carlos Sintan | - Why does it matter that our bees are dying out I hear you ask, honey bees just make honey right? Not so, a third of all food production in the UK and worldwide relies on bees for pollination. This means that without honey bees for pollination, many of our basic foodstuffs would not survive and the future of humankind would be precarious to say the least. Pretty scary stuff isnt it?

    Honey bees are essential to food production, pollen sticks to their fuzzy bodies as they search for ...

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  • Mandatory Dog Microchipping And Compulsory Pet Insurance
    By: Stephanie Andrew | - Mandatory Dog Micro chipping and Compulsory Pet Insurance

    The recent proposals regarding revisions to the Dangerous Dogs Act (1991) in the UK - making it mandatory for all dogs to be microchipped and owners to have third party pet liability insurance on their dogs - have of course sparked another lively debate between people for and those against.
    The government wanted to use this law to help decrease the number of dogs that are bred and kept for the sole purpose of intimidati ...

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  • Chickens In The Garden? Five Questions To Ask
    By: Roy Preece | - Before keeping chickens in your garden or backyard, you should consider these five questions:

    1. WHICH BREED TO BUY?

    Ask yourself the following 6 questions. When you have the answer, you can google "Chicken Breeds" and match your criteria to a breed of your choice.

    1. Do you care if the breeds are rare/unusual?
    2. Do you want birds that will rear chicks?
    3. Do you want eggs of a certain colour?
    4. Do you require especially docile birds? ...

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  • Defra Carbon Plans And The Carbon Reduction Commitment
    By: Daniel Stouffer | - The Climate Change Act in 2008 gave birth to the Carbon Reduction Commitment which resulted to DEFRA. It is a more consolidated form of legislation which spells conviction in combating climate change issues and is very much legally binding.

    The DEFRA carbon approach resulted in the Carbon Reduction Commitment, a child of the Climate Change Act of 2008. The British definitely swiftly made a move on this in order to meet carbon budgets on the program's first years. The CRC energy sav ...

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  • Don't Buy A 'turkey' This Christmas
    By: Robert Ward | - Despite Defra's efforts to promote honest food labelling, campaigner Rob Ward warns of the perils facing shoppers looking for high quality authentic food, and suggests we may be serving up more than one turkey this Christmas.

    Thursday 10 December Defra are hosting a Christmas market in Covent Garden featuring producers of foods registered under the EU Protected Food Names Scheme. This scheme offers legal protection to smaller food manufacturers to ensure that the way they describe t ...

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  • The Ten Main Tips For Rainwater Harvesting
    By: Marcus Bicknell | - Surprising as it may seem, England is short of water, and there is now official encouragement to reduce mains water consumption both by maximising the use of rainwater and using water-efficient appliances. You may have seen recent ads by DEFRA in national newspapers exhorting us to save water. As yet there are no grants or tax incentives for the homeowner to install rainwater harvesting systems. However, building regs are changing in 2010 to make a 120 litre maximum per person per day the norm ...
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  • Is Rain Water The New Oil?
    By: Marcus Bicknell | - In the UK, there are still homes that are recovering from the summer floods of last year. However, almost 50% of all English and Welsh households are in areas where a sufficient water supply is still a problem.

    Water companies are finding it difficult to meet the increasing demand, particularly in the south of England. After the very wet summers of 2007 and 2008 many householders will have probably forgotten the low rainfall and drought in 2006, or more importantly how dry winters ...

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  • Government Agency/bpr
    By: Clive Sexton | - A Healthier Alternative

    When Richard Calvert joined the Food Standards Agency (FSA) as Director of Strategy and Resources in April 2007, he immediately identified as a problem the low level of investment there had been in information technology since the Agency was created in 2000.

    The Agency was still using old legacy systems, and IT was tucked away in the back office rather than being viewed as a value-adding strategic resource, he explains. ...

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  • In A Recession, Should I Still Make Recycling A Priority?
    By: Phil Byrne | - 'Yes!' is the message from the recent joint statement by WRAP, DEFRA, National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NSIP) and Environment Agency, as well as contractors and representatives from the industry. Recycling capacity in the UK has increased considerably over the last 7 years. While the recent global markets for recycling have been affected by the recession there is still a demand for high quality recyclables.

    According to Recycle Now of the 10 million tonnes of material put ...

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  • A Green Audit - A Look At Your Business Through Grass-tinted Specs
    By: Lilach Bullock | - Once upon a time, businesses would brag about their charity work and involvement with community programmes, but Green issues are now top of the agenda. Whether it was the impact of Al Gores incredible documentary An Inconvenient Truth or the sudden realisation that our planet is running out of fossil fuels, companies are racing to prove that they are ecologically friendly. For many it is because they genuinely care and for some it is because they realise that it can be good for the marketing dri ...
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  • Pet Travel Scheme
    By: Sandy Scott | - Quarantine means a six month kennel stay to ensure that a pet is not incubating one of a number of contagious diseases. For many years there was no alternative but quarantine for pets entering this country - the principal concern being to maintain our rabies - free state. However, the advent of improved identification techniques and better preventative medicines now means that the alternative Pet Travel Scheme is available, operated by DEFRA (Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs).< ...
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  • How To Action A Model Footprint
    By: article-magazine.com | - Businesses can now set the dead ringer trace of their phenomenon and navy and joke a supplementary situation in rampage climate contrariness credit to a late for instance launched jointly by BSI Nation Values (the UK's Home Values Stable), the Similitude Reckon On, and Defra (the UK Chunk for Surround, Victuals and Smooth Dealings).

    The visibly lavish scout called PAS 2050 provides a regular way to evaluate the edifice hilarious emissions embedded in observation and navy through ...

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  • Learn More About A Career In Environmental Consultancy
    By: Dominic Donaldson | - The UK environment industry is estimated to employ 400,000 people in 2007 and is worth approximately 25 billion GBP. Environmental consultancy is a rapidly growing industry sector and is predicted to achieve over 9% growth throughout 2008, due to government legislation that companies must adhere to in their business practices and developments.

    The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) was formed in 2001 due to the failure of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisher ...

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  • Software - Making Better Software!
    By: MANPREET SINGH SABHARWAL | - Do you ever feel that you just get the latest software package to do something marvelous with your computer and as soon as you spend the money it's obsolete? Do you feel like you just want to stop progress for a few minutes so that you can catch up to innovation? Than you have to visit www.software-designers-pro.com Probably that's not a realistic wish, but there is a way you can take advantage of the latest technology without spending a fortune in purchasing the products you want and use. Just ...
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  • An Introduction To The Concept Of Sustainable Industrial Cleaning
    By: Shaun Parker | - Today the word at the forefront of marketing campaigns in every industry is environment. For many it is just a gimmick and the latest buzz word however in certain industries it is at the forefront of concern. This is true for industrial cleaning as many of the chemicals used in cleaning products have been harmful to the environment and the response has been significant.

    A common misconception by many people is that naturally occurring chemicals are safer and less harmful to the en ...

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  • What Is Gasification?
    By: Steve D Evans | - Gasification is the thermal decomposition of organic material at elevated temperatures in an oxygen restricted environment. The process, which requires an initial heat supply to get underway, produces a mixture of combustible gases (primarily methane, complex hydrocarbons, hydrogen and carbon monoxide) called 'syngas'. Syngas can be stored or combusted as it is produced, giving the process a high degree of flexibility. Gasification enables biomass to be burnt very efficiently and in its most tec ...
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  • Pet Insurance Helps Cover Rising Costs
    By: Christian Ward | - Pets might give you unconditional love, but they aren't free - caring for them can cost you thousands of pounds over their lifetime.

    A dog will cost 14,750 over its 12-year typical lifespan and a cat 14,230 over 16 years, says insurer Petplan.

    Given these expenses, many pet owners choose to insure their pets. Claims on pet insurance are more common than on other types of insurance: every year 34 % of policyholders make a claim, compared with just 9 % of those ...

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  • Flooding Limits Will Help Insurance
    By: Ruth Jacob | - The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is warning home owners, who live in areas that are at more risk of flooding, that their properties may not be covered by home insurance policies, unless the Government, intervene and create measures that will limit floods and thus their damaging affects.

    According to the ABI, there are 517,000 homes at significant risk of being flooded. The floods of last summer, cost the ABIs members 3 billion in claims. Furthermore, nearly 5,000 h ...

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  • Home Insurance Risk For Floodplain Areas
    By: Phil Benson | - The insurance industry has warned that many new homes could be left on the housing market and become uninsurable unless the government introduces new rigid planning controls for flood risk areas.

    By the year 2020, a third of the 3 million proposed homes set to be built in Britain, could be on a flood plain according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI). If this is the case the ABI have warned their members that they may not be able to continue to offer flood cover as stand ...

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