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Regulatory reporting controls at Solent Water

Seven late submissions in a year, a regulator losing patience, and a control framework the reporting team maintains itself.

Risk, Governance & Regulation · Solent Water

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late regulatory submissions in twelve months, from seven

How it was measured 

Measured as the count of regulatory submissions delivered after deadline or restated, over the twelve months after the framework went live, against the twelve before. Stated this way because a figure without its method is a claim. Ask us for the workings: we will send them.

On the engagement

On the record 

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Three movements.

01

The challenge

The regulator had received seven late or restated submissions in twelve months. Each had a different cause and the same root: nobody owned the data between the operational systems and the return.

02

The approach

One owner per reported figure, a lineage map from meter to return, and controls wired into the reporting calendar rather than into a policy document. The framework was written with the reporting team and is maintained by them.

03

The result

Zero late or restated submissions in the following twelve months, and the regulator's enhanced-monitoring status lifted.

The engagement, on paper.

The record

ClientSolent Water

SectorEnergy & utilities

ServiceRisk, Governance & Regulation

Year2022

Duration6 weeks

Fee£70–95k, fixed

You leave with 6 weeks

A register with risk tiers your team maintains without us

An audit trail from data to decision

A policy set mapped to the regulation, clause by clause

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