Motor Insurance: Complaints
Commons · Question 71107 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 4 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Daisy Cooper
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the scope of the Financial Ombudsman to permit investigation of complaints about motor insurance companies where the claimant is not a direct custo
Answer
Answered by Emma Reynolds, 4 Sep 2025
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) was set up to resolve complaints between consumers and their own financial services providers. It cannot consider disputes between insurers and third parties as the third party is not the policyholder. The rules on ho...