10 May 2008
Apr 4
Competition Commission plans for 2008/2009
Competition Commission work programme (17 pages, PDF) for the financial year 2008/2009.
Apr 3
Ofcom annual plan for 2008/2009
Ofcom statement (66 pages, PDF) on its work plans for the financial year 2008/2009.
Apr 1
Ofwat's forward programme 2008-2011
Ofwat statement (12 illustrated landscape pages, 1.2M PDF) on its work plans for the next three years.
Apr 1
Ofgem's corporate strategy and plan 2008-2013
Ofgem statement (63 pages, PDF) on its plans for the next five years.
Mar 4
BBC Trust work plan 2008/2009
BBC Trust consultation (18 pages, PDF) on its plans for the financial year 2008/2009. Responses by Tuesday 1 April 2008.
Mar 3
Government response to Lords committee on regulators
Government response (22 pages, PDF) to the report by a committee of the House of Lords on economic regulators. The document leaves specific matters (e.g. joint working arrangements, Ofwat's interpretation of competition law, etc.) to be addressed by responses of the regulatory bodies.
On the specific concern of the committee about potential regulatory capture affecting competition cases, the Government states:
With respect to complainants being able to request that the OFT take the lead in investigating complaints, the Government observes that they can already do so. Any request that the OFT take a case in a concurrent sector will be taken into consideration when the OFT and the relevant concurrent regulator agree who is better placed to deal with the complaint. Additionally, when conducting investigations the regulators liaise with each other and the OFT where appropriate on specific issues. Consequently, the Government see no reason to change the current arrangements.
Feb 19
Ofreg annual report and accounts 2006/2007
Resource accounts (60 pages, PDF) for the financial year 2006/2007 of the Northern Ireland Authority for Energy Regulation, now the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation, also known as the Utility Regulator and formerly known as Ofreg.
Expenditure increased by a third, to £4 million a year, mainly due to spending on establishing all-Ireland wholesale electricity trading arrangements.
There is also an annual report (42 pages, PDF).
Feb 15
Competition Appeal Tribunal accounts 2006/2007
Annual report and accounts (50 pages, PDF) of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (and Competition Service) for 2006/2007.
Total expenditure was up by 1 per cent to £3.6 million: £1.5 million on the office and IT, £0.8 million for members, £0.9 million for other staff, and £0.3 million on "other administration including case related expenditure".
Feb 7
European energy regulators' associations' work plans 2008
2008 work programme (101 pages, PDF) of the Council of European Energy Regulators and of ERGEG (the committee of more or less the same regulators established by the European Commission).
