UK government Archive

  • The effect of the Budget upon the UK Insurance market

    The effect of the Budget upon the UK Insurance market

    The effect of the Budget upon the UK Insurance market by Insurance Blogger on July 14th, 2010 // // The hatchet man Chancellor George Osborne has spoken and the little red box opened to reveal one of the most stinging budgets in recent memory, already...

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  • How the UK Budget will affect the price of Insurance

    How the UK Budget will affect the price of Insurance

    The effect of the Budget upon the UK Insurance market by Insurance Blogger // // The hatchet man Chancellor George Osborne has spoken and the little red box opened to reveal one of the most stinging budgets in recent memory, already named the austerity budget,...

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  • Unemployment Insurance – Beat The Public Spending Cuts!

    Unemployment Insurance – Beat The Public Spending Cuts!

    The past week of electioneering and the unemployment figures released midweek by the Office of National Statistics, paint a gloomy future for many currently employed in the Public Sector and jobs that rely on Government Funding. Whatever the outcome of the General Election on May...

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  • Insurance Leads The Way To Global Economic Recovery

    Insurance Leads The Way To Global Economic Recovery

    UK Insurance Regulation: Geneva report suggests Insurance leads the way in rebuilding the economy A report by the Geneva Association published this week has indicated that Insurers and Reinsurers are likely to play a mammoth part in rebuilding and restructuring the faltering global economy. The...

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  • Post Budget Blues or Pre Election Reds – Playing Risk with Your Future!

    Post Budget Blues or Pre Election Reds – Playing Risk with Your Future!

    So Alisdair Darling delivered his pre-election budget to a crowd of disinterested Brits yesterday and effectively opened the floodgates for the six week marathon of Polls, Accusations, Taunts, Cajolery, Calumny and Political Bollocks that culminates with you putting your X in the box of damage...

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  • Euro On The Point Of Collapse – Victim Of A Trojan Horse?

    Euro On The Point Of Collapse – Victim Of A Trojan Horse?

    If the Franco-German alliance fails to bail out the Greek debt then the Euro will most certainly collapse! Mass Devaluation. Cheap Holidays in the Sun! Suddenly Europe will not be worth half as much as it was! Worse still for the Euro Bankers is the...

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  • UK Insurance Regulation Is Changing The Face Of The Market

    UK Insurance Regulation Is Changing The Face Of The Market

    In 2005, two years before the credit crunch, the British government imposed far reaching financial and structural controls over the UK Insurance Market by bringing the sale of General Insurance into the controlling hands of the Financial Services Authority, the FSA. Legal regulation and authorisation...

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  • Public Sector Employees Facing Redundancy Should Consider Unemployment Insurance

    Public Sector Employees Facing Redundancy Should Consider Unemployment Insurance

    With the recession officially over and 0.5 percent growth in the last quarter of 2009 you might be fooled in believing that unemployment is a thing of the past. The grim truth is that every day up and down the country people are still losing...

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  • Green Shoots in the UK Economy and Markets?

    Green Shoots in the UK Economy and Markets?

    There’s been a lot of positive talk in the UK housing market over the last few days or so……..Onward Christian Soldiers…..Relaxation of the credit stanglehold?Total net lending to individuals rose by £0.3 billion in October. The twelve-month growth rate fell to 0.7%, and the three-month...

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  • Government Transport Policy set to increase Car Insurance Rates

    Government Transport Policy set to increase Car Insurance Rates

    The British Government although to be applauded in some social areas, seems to have totally got things wrong with it’s policies towards infrastructure, and those policy relationships with transportation, movement of goods and people and subsequent business development and economic growth. Anybody who has been...

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  • Insurance Companies buy more UK Government Debt

    Insurance Companies buy more UK Government Debt

    The Bank of England has just announced that the latest efforts at so called Quantitative Easing involves the injection of another £25 billion of made up money in the circular flow of money system, which means that since the recession Britain has generated £200 billion...

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  • Payment Protection Insurance – Barclays Challenge Government ruling

    Payment Protection Insurance – Barclays Challenge Government ruling

    Barclays scupper plans for PPI reform Plans to restrict the sale of payment protection insurance (PPI) at the point when loans or mortgage are granted have been set back following a successful appeal by Barclays bank. The Competition Appeal Tribunal has now been forced to...

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  • Vauxhall Insurance not to become a classic – Thanks to Peter Mandelson

    Vauxhall Insurance not to become a classic – Thanks to Peter Mandelson

    Working in Car insurance it’s really quite sad when a famous marque goes to the wall. It’s even sadder when it’s a British one! So it’s great news that Vauxhall Motors will not just be appearing on the classic car insurance list in the future!...

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  • FSA orders GBP 60 Million Mortgage Protection Insurance Repayments

    FSA orders GBP 60 Million Mortgage Protection Insurance Repayments

    More than a million UK householders are to get refunds on their recent mortgage protection insurance monthly payments, after the City watchdog, the FSA, forced PPI providers including giant firms such as Aviva and Abbey; to pay back over GBP60 million in increased Mortgage Protection...

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  • A History of UK Unemployment Insurance

    A History of UK Unemployment Insurance

    Unemployment Insurance has hit the headlines recently, mostly due to a rise in demand due to the recession, but also due to misselling of payment protection accident, sickess and unemployment insurance and the subsequent flood of claims. As a concept the first type of Unemployment...

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