Owner of Yorkshire Water Kelda Group has gone out to tender with an insurance brokerage and risk management services contract for the AMP7 2020-25 investment period - initial contract term is 3 years, with 2 further 1 year extension options.

The House of Commons Environment Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee has launched a new inquiry scrutinising the Government's plans for flood risk management in England.

A £2 million fund to support farmers who suffered uninsurable damage to their property in the devastating floods in November has opened for applications this week.

The European Environment Agency (EEA) is warning that climate change will increase the occurrence and frequency of once-in-a-century river floods in most regions of Europe.

Southern Water has gone out to tender with a contract for insurance broking and associated services worth an estimated £11.5 million.

A new report is warning that climate risks to physical infrastructure combined with other threats mean that losses from climate-related hazards will continue to rise unless investors, lenders, insurers and policymakers undertake significant risk management efforts.

Construction works have begun on a £13.3 million flood defence scheme for the strategic £1.2 billion Lincolnshire Lakes regeneration project which will see six new lakeside villages created on a former flood plain.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has called on the Government to increase spending on building and maintaining UK flood infrastructure.

A new, independent report launched today is aimed at helping people better protect their homes and businesses from risk of flooding and recover more quickly if the worst happens.

The House of Commons Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee will take evidence from Flood Re and the insurance industry on the affordability and availability of insurance for customers in flood risk areas and the impact of the government-backed Flood Re reinsurance scheme as part of its future flood prevention inquiry.