About this event

Loughborough University’s Centre for Productivity and Performance is pleased to announce a workshop focussed on water industry performance and the regulatory application of cost assessment in the English and Welsh Water sector.  As the workshop will consider both past trends in industry performance, as well as the application of comparative cost assessment methods to determining current relative cost performance, it should be of great interest to regulators, policy makers, regulatory directors, academics, and practitioners, as we move forward to the key stages of Ofwat’s 2019 Price Review.     

The first session will feature recent research from the Centre for Productivity and Performance, Frontier Economics, and others regarding post privatisation performance trends in England and Wales, as well as presentations on alternative ownership and regulatory models. Both the former Director General of Ofwat, Sir Ian Byatt, and Alan Sutherland the current Chief Executive of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland have confirmed their participation in this session. 

The second session will focus on Cost Assessment and its application to Ofwat’s 2019 Price Review.  This session will include contributions from Anglian Water, Severn Trent Water, and Vivid Economics (presenting work carried out for United Utilities).  Ynon Gablinger, Ofwat’s cost assessment team leader for the 2019 price review, will also participate.

The workshop will conclude with a roundtable session with confirmed participation by Sir Ian Byatt, Professor David Parker, Cranfield University, Alan Horncastle,  Oxera Consulting and Professor David Saal, Loughborough University.

Details

Date:	Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Times:	10.30am – 5.30pm
Venue:	Burleigh Court Hotel (Campus Hotel) Loughborough University LE11 3GR
Directions	How to Find Us by rail and car If travelling by car, on entering campus collect a car parking ticket from the security gate. They will also give directions to Burleigh Court Hotel and conference centre.
Car parking:	Parking is available outside the building
Registration:	Free to attend, registration is required by email to: Ruth CufflinR.Cufflin@lboro.ac.uk
Accommodation:	Delegates will need to book and pay for their own accommodation. There is a Campus hotel, details can be found on the webpage http://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/accommodation/short-stay/hotels/
Evening Dinner	Burleigh Court Hotel restaurant. This is optional, please request a place.

 CPP Water Workshop May 2018 Timetable

Contact details

• Ruth Cufflin
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