The real work of PR14 is just about to start

For a moment back there in the summer, it looked as though PR14 could go horribly wrong. As we now know, Ofwat had under­estimated the scale of the task and got its sums out to the tune of £10 million. It had to draft in a “delivery partner” to help its thinly stretched staff manage the huge workload, and in the middle of it all, chief executive Regina Finn upped and left.