NI Water AIR21: Activity Costing Analysis for Water Service

Northern Ireland Water's Annual Information Return for 2020-2021 includes Table 22, a regulatory accounts activity costing analysis for the water service. The dataset is provided by the Government Digital Service under an Open Government Licence and is available in ODS format. Its specific row count and column details are not provided in the metadata.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking water service operational costs based on the activity costing analysis mentioned in the description
• Modeling regulatory compliance and financial reporting for utilities based on the regulatory accounts framework
• Analyzing cost allocation and efficiency trends within a public water service provider

Strengths

• Data originates from a formal regulatory reporting process (Annual Information Return)
• Covers a defined fiscal period (2020-2021)
• Published under a permissive Open Government Licence

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Regulatory accounting and reporting by NI Water

Time Range

2020-2021

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Northern Ireland