Consultation outcome

Water supply and sewerage licensing regime: standard licence conditions and approach to secondary legislation

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 17 December 2015
• Last updated: 17 March 2016 — See all updates

This consultation has concluded

Download the full outcome

Summary of responses and the UK government’s response

PDF, 146KB, 11 pages

Detail of outcome

We received 14 responses to this consultation. Following this consultation, we’ve published the final version of the standard licence conditions for new water supply and sewerage licenses. Ofwat will open up the new licensing regime in April 2016.

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Original consultation

Summary

Seeking views on the standard licence conditions and approach to secondary legislation for the water supply and sewerage licensing regime.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
17 December 2015 to 11:59pm on 27 January 2016

Consultation description

We are inviting views on the standard licence conditions for the water supply and sewerage licensing regime (WSSL). The Secretary of State is required to publish these licence conditions before Ofwat can open the new WSSL licence application process in April 2016, ahead of retail market opening in April 2017.

Ofwat has previously conducted policy consultations on licence conditions, and therefore this is a final opportunity for stakeholders to provide comments before the new application process begins.

We are also inviting views on our approach to introducing and amending secondary legislation needed for market opening.

Published 17 December 2015
Last updated 17 March 2016 + show all updates

1. 17 March 2016

   Summary of responses added.

2. 17 December 2015

   First published.