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Useful statistics.
Customers may think 'It won't happen to me' but some of the statistics below tell a different story.
These useful statistics help to illustrate the importance of having adequate cover.
| Event | Statistic | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Fire, flood, storm | 2007 summer floods affected 120,000 homes and businesses in the UK | Association of British Insurers 2009 |
| One in six (5.2 million) properties in England are at risk of flooding | Environment-agency.gov.uk, 2009 | |
| Between Apr-09 and Mar-10, there were 39,000 house fires in the UK. That’s one every 13 minutes. | Communities.gov.uk 2010 | |
| People in the lowest income households are eight times more likely to be living in tidal floodplains than people in more affluent households | Association of British Insurers 2009 | |
| £12.4m was paid out daily in 2007 to householders for property damage or loss of possessions | Association of British Insurers 2009 | |
| Accident | For a single year the UK national estimate of victims of accidents in the home was 2.7 million | RoSPA 2008 |
| Every year there are approximately 4,000 deaths as the result of a home accident | Health & Safety Executive 2009 | |
| More accidents happen at home than anywhere else | Health & Safety Executive 2009 | |
| More accidents happen in the lounge/living room than anywhere else | Health & Safety Executive 2009 | |
| 180 workers were killed at work between April 2008 and March 2009 | Health & Safety Executive 2009 | |
| You are 20 times more likely to suffer a fatal accident at home than to win the National Lottery | RoSPA 2008 | |
| Sickness | For every death in a road accident between 2 and 3 people are permanently disabled | RoSPA 2008 |
| 4.1m working days are lost to back pain every year | Health & Safety Executive 2010 | |
| 80% of people in the UK will suffer from back pain at some point in their lives | Health & Safety Executive 2009 | |
| Statutory Sick Pay: £79.15 per week | Directgov 2010 | |
| Unemployment | The number of people claiming job seekers allowance in Sep 2010 was 1.47m | Office for National Statistics 2010 |
| The number of people unemployed in the UK was 2.45 million in the three months to August | Office for National Statistics 2010 | |
| 3 in 5 homeowners (61%) said they would not be able to survive financially if out of work for six months due to accident or sickness | Nationwide 2009 | |
| On average, homeowners need just short of £300 a week to survive without their usual income | Nationwide 2009 | |
| More than four unemployed people are chasing every job vacancy on average across the UK, rising to 31 in some areas | Unison, 2010 |
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