Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussion he has had with car insurance providers on (a) changes in the price of car insurance renewals in the last 12 months and (b) the potential impact of such changes on consumers.

Department for transport officials regularly liaise with representatives of the motor insurance industry on a variety of issues such as the cost of insurance.

However, it is the responsibility of individual motor insurers to set their premiums and the terms and conditions of their policies, and the Government does not intervene or seek to control the market.