{"id":13910,"date":"2014-03-10T11:58:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T10:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=13910"},"modified":"2014-03-10T13:09:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T12:09:17","slug":"only-two-water-companies-fast-tracked-by-regulator-ofwat-in-price-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=13910","title":{"rendered":"Only two water companies fast-tracked by regulator Ofwat in price review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past two years, I have been working hard\u00a0chairing the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southeastwater.co.uk\/about-us\/our-business\/customer-challenge-group#ad-image-0\">Customer Challenge Group of South East Water<\/a>\u00a0which has had to submit views on the company\u2019s business plan for 2015-2020 to the water regulator Ofwat. Each water company in England &amp; Wales has a CCG which has been doing the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>This is an important process because, on the basis of the company&#8217;s business plan and our critique of it, Ofwat will eventually decide what prices South East Water can charge to its 2.1 million customers from 2015-2020.<\/p>\n<p>Companies submitted their business plans and CCGs submitted their reports on 2 December 2013. You can read our report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southeastwater.co.uk\/media\/185954\/CCG_report_021213.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ofwat originally decided that, as a feature of this Price Review, it would allocate each company business plan to one of three self-explanatory categories: enhanced, standard and resubmit. This morning, Ofwar announced which of the 18 companies are to be offered enhanced or fast-track status and explained that, in a change of approach, all other companies would be treated the same with all having to rework their plans to some degree.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofwat.gov.uk\/pricereview\/pr14\/prs_web140310pr14prequal\">statement<\/a>\u00a0announces that only two companies are to be offered enhanced status and neither of them is the company that I have been working with, South East Water. The companies are Affinity (which is actually my own water company) and South West Water.<\/p>\n<p>So clearly there is more work for 16 CCGs, including the one I chair. Meanwhile Ofwat has said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;All water and wastewater companies have worked hard to take ownership of their plans. We have seen a real change in approach, which will benefit customers. It is clear that companies have engaged actively with customers, and have sought to reflect that engagement in formulating customer-focused plans. The customer challenge groups (CCGs) have made a significant and important contribution to this step change.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past two years, I have been working hard\u00a0chairing the\u00a0Customer Challenge Group of South East Water\u00a0which has had to submit views on the company\u2019s business plan for 2015-2020 to the water regulator Ofwat. Each water company in England &amp; Wales has a CCG which has been doing the same thing. This is an important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13910"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13922,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13910\/revisions\/13922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}