"With a cost to insurers of around £3 billion, the summer floods have engendered the largest natural catastrophe insurance loss ever recorded in the UK."

"Flooding is 30 times as costly as getting burgled and this thief takes everything in its path.”

"Insurers that invest in flood risk assessment technologies have saved tens of millions of pounds by careful risk selection."

"The scale of the surface water flooding problem faced in summer 2007, and the growing likelihood of similar flooding in the future means there is a clear need for action."