NI Water Regulatory Accounts: Sewerage Service Activity Costing Analysis 2019-2020

NI Water's regulatory accounts for sewerage service activity costing under historic cost accounting principles. The dataset is part of the Annual Information Return submitted by the utility for the 2019 and 2020 fiscal years. It was published by the Government Digital Service under the UK's Open Government Licence.

Use Cases

• Analyze cost allocation and efficiency for sewerage services based on the activity costing framework mentioned in the description.
• Benchmark utility performance and expenditure against regulatory targets based on the historic cost accounting data.
• Model tariff structures or regulatory price reviews using detailed cost breakdowns for a specific utility.
• Study public utility economics in a specific regional context (Northern Ireland) based on the official regulatory accounts.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from an official regulatory submission by a public utility, suggesting authoritative origin.
• Covers two consecutive fiscal years (2019 and 2020), allowing for year-on-year comparison.
• Published under the Open Government Licence, which permits wide reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified beyond the stated 2019-2020 period.

Provenance

Source

NI Water (Northern Ireland Water), via Government Digital Service.

Collection Method

Likely extracted from the Annual Information Return regulatory submission.

Time Range

2019-2020

Freshness

Covers 2019-2020. Last update date is unknown.

Geography

Northern Ireland