Scottish Water - Delivery Assurance Group: performance progress report - quarter four 2022-2023

1. Purpose

This document sets out how Scottish Water is progressing with the delivery of projects and programmes included on the 'Committed List' and confirms the position up to the end of March 2023 (Q4 22/23).

What We Monitor 

Each quarter Scottish Water reports on its progress with the delivery of projects and programmes included in the Committed List as follows:

Section 2: Executive Summary – to highlight key findings and to provide an overview of levels of investment compared to the Delivery Plan and highlight delivery risks that have, or may, impact progress.

Section 3: Indicator of Progress of Overall Delivery (IPOD) - to provide an insight to stakeholders on progress of projects on the Committed List compared with the forecasts set when the projects were committed to delivery - and to take learning from any variances.

Section 4: Progress of delivery of committed projects within Water portfolio - to provide stakeholders with a view of how the water portfolio is progressing.

Section 5: Progress of delivery of committed projects within Wastewater portfolio - to provide stakeholders with a view of how the wastewater portfolio is progressing.

Section 6: Progress of delivery of committed projects within Customer Engagement, Flourishing Scotland and Support Services (CE&FS&SS) portfolio - to provide stakeholders with a view of how of this portfolio is progressing.

Section 7: Progress in delivering SR15 completion projects – to provide stakeholders with a view of how the planned completion portfolio, and projects delayed due to Covid-19 and other risks, are progressing.

Section 8: Future Improvements to Reporting.

Section 9: Conclusion.

Progress of sub-portfolios can be found in Appendices A – C.

The diagram showing the suite of IPPG and DAG reports as they apply to the IPPF can be found in Appendix D.

A Glossary of Terms can be found in Appendix E – this will be added to over time.

This is a high-level report, Appendices A-E are available on request.