Water industry - Scottish Government Investment Group - Committed List performance progress report: quarter 3 2023/24

8. Future Improvements to Reporting

In November, the Short Life Task Group (SLTG) agreed the definitions of outputs and outcomes with WICS, as well as agreeing a number of other measurable terms that will allow for effective reporting of the impact of investment at different levels (including definitions of service outcomes and service sub-outcomes) and which provide a bridge between measurable outputs and the high-level outcomes definition.

In addition, Scottish Water has recently produced an interim investment baseline for further discussion with WICS, which sets out investments by Management Approach (MA), together with the outputs resulting from each investment. This is the first time this output information has been provided and the investment baseline is still being developed in a number of respects, including:

• The next iteration of the baseline will be structured by asset category, rather than SW MA;
• The outputs information continues to be refined and improved to ensure accuracy, relevance and comparability across the investment programme.

The aim is for Scottish Water and WICS to agree an appropriate investment baseline template by March 2024, with this template then used to report performance as part of the AR24 process.