NI Water: Capital Investment and Operational Expenditure Metrics 2019-2020

Northern Ireland Water's financial data details capital investment and associated operational expenditure for the 2019-2020 reporting period. The dataset, labeled Table 38 from the Annual Information Return (AIR20), contains financial measures for the public water utility. It is published under an open government license and is available on multiple government data platforms.

Use Cases

• Analyzing capital expenditure efficiency for a public water utility based on reported financial measures.
• Benchmarking operational costs derived from capital projects (Additional Opex from Capex) against industry standards.
• Tracking public infrastructure investment in Northern Ireland's water sector for a specific fiscal year.
• Conducting regulatory oversight of NI Water's financial performance using official Annual Information Return data.

Strengths

• Published under an open government license (OGL-UK-3.0), facilitating reuse and analysis.
• Appears on multiple official government data platforms (eu_open_data, uk_data), indicating a standard public record.
• Covers a specific and recent reporting period (2019-2020) for temporal consistency.

Limitations

• Column names and a precise row count are not provided in the available metadata, limiting understanding of the data's granularity.
• The 'last updated' metadata field shows a future date (2026-07-08), which is a conflict and suggests potential metadata errors.
• The dataset's scope is limited to a single table (Table 38) from a larger annual return, providing a narrow financial view.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Reported as part of the statutory Annual Information Return (AIR20).

Time Range

2019-2020

Freshness

2026-07-08 13:32:58.647420

Geography

Northern Ireland