11. To submit views on our proposed approach and prioritisation, please email WaterPR24References@cma.gov.uk . To support your views, please provide either supporting evidence or refer to where you have provided it within previous submissions. All interested parties are requested to make any submissions in response to this document by 12:00 midday on Wednesday 11 June 2025 . 12. The CMA may publish non-sensitive submissions on the CMA’s website. Where you believe that information contained within a submission is sensitive information which should not be disclosed, you should provide:
(a) a version with sensitive information clearly highlighted; (b) a non-sensitive version with any sensitive information redacted; and (c) a table setting out your reasons for treating each item or category of information as sensitive information. Next steps 13. Our administrative timetable has been published on our case page . 6 14. We will consider responses to this document to assist us in shaping our prioritisation and approach. As noted above, we welcome views from main and third parties, including those representing customers’ interests. 15.
We will hold a series of hearings over three weeks in late June and early July, during which we will hear further from the main parties and the Consumer Council for Water ( CCW ) and ask questions to inform our provisional conclusions. 16. We expect to publish our provisional conclusions in mid-September 2025 in our provisional determinations report. 7 The main purpose of publishing a provisional determinations report is to enable the Disputing Companies, Ofwat and third parties to comment on our reasoning and accuracy of arguments. This will be the primary means of seeking views on our provisional redeterminations. 17.
We will consider responses to the provisional determinations before issuing our final report. We must issue the final report before 17 March 2026, although we will seek to issue it by mid-December 2025 if possible, having regard to our duties under the Water Industry Act 1991 and the overriding objective. 8 While we are not proposing to deprioritise issues in order to meet the December target (as opposed 6 Having requested, and been granted by Ofwat, an extension of the statutory deadline to 12 months. 7 Rules ( CMA204 ), Rule 11, and Guide ( CMA205) , paragraphs 4.16–4.17.
8 In the light of timetable representations made by Ofwat and the Disputing Companies regarding the desirability for the redetermination being completed in mid-December 2025 to allow for any changes to the price control to be reflected in customer bills of 2026/27 and therefore enabling the Disputing Companies to spread any changes in revenue allowed over the PR24 charge control period across 4 rather than 3 years of bills. 6