Following agreement with Capita, underwriting services previously provided by Capita will transfer to Scottish Provident.

This will result in the addition of about 80 underwriters for the Glasgow-based protection insurer.

Gordon Watson, operations director, Scottish Provident, said: “We’re delighted to considerably strengthen our underwriting proposition. The transfer of underwriting services forms part of the ongoing development of our protection offering and our business objectives for 2010. The transfer will allow us to continue to pursue the delivery of a first class protection proposition for Scottish Provident.”””