Periodic review 2023: draft determination

• PR23 draft determination: executive summary - England & Wales
• PR23 draft determination: executive summary - Scotland

• PR23 draft determination: overview - England & Wales
• PR23 draft determination: overview - Scotland

• PR23 draft determination: consolidated list of decisions, proposals and actions - England & Wales and Scotland

Introduction providing an overview of the PR23 process, our approach to assessing Network Rail’s plans and next steps.

• PR23 draft determination: introduction

Settlement documents for each of the England & Wales regions, Scotland and the system operator detailing our expectations about the funding that will be allocated to each region and the system operator and the outputs that will be delivered by them.

• PR23 draft determination: settlement document for the Eastern region
• PR23 draft determination: settlement document for the Southern region
• PR23 draft determination: settlement document for the North West & Central region
• PR23 draft determination: settlement document for the Wales & Western region
• PR23 draft determination: settlement document for Scotland
• PR23 draft determination: settlement document for the System Operator

Supporting documents which set out our technical assessments in the areas of: health and safety, outcomes, sustainable and efficient costs, national functions and income.

• PR23 draft determination: supporting document – health and safety
• PR23 draft determination: supporting document – outcomes
• PR23 draft determination: supporting document – sustainable and efficient costs
  This document is in three parts: 
  • Part I includes the summary and conclusions
  • Part II includes the technical detail
  • Part III is the annexes
• PR23 draft determination: supporting document – National Functions
• PR23 draft determination: supporting document – other income

We've also published a list of consultants and independent reporters' studies for PR23.

Advice to governments

During 2022 we provided advice to the UK Government and Scottish Ministers about Network Rail’s funding requirements for its operations, support, maintenance and renewals activity for control period 7 and what it could deliver for that funding. We have published this advice:

• Initial advice to the UK Government
• First supplementary advice to the UK Government
• Second supplementary advice to the UK Government
• Further supplementary advice to the UK Government 
• Initial advice to the Scottish Ministers
• First supplementary advice to the Scottish Ministers
• Second supplementary advice to the Scottish Ministers
• Further supplementary advice to the Scottish Ministers  

Our advice reflects the wider economic context and Network Rail’s CP7 plans at the time of production and should be read in that context. 

Since the advice was prepared, Network Rail has produced its strategic business plans and ORR has published its PR23 draft determination. 

Where values (£m) or the assessment of plans differs from the June PR23 draft determination, the draft determination takes precedence – as will the final determination when published. 

Policy positions covering access charges, performance and possessions incentive regimes, our intended approach for the financial framework and for managing change during CP7.

• PR23 draft determination: policy position – financial framework
• PR23 draft determination: policy position – access charges
• PR23 draft determination: policy position – schedules 4 and 8 incentives regimes
• PR23 draft determination: policy position – managing change

• PR23 draft determination: impact assessment on capping / phasing-in VUC increases for freight and charter in CP7
• PR23 draft determination: impact assessment on availability of modelled EC4T consumption rates
• PR23 draft determination: impact assessment on Schedule 8 ‘switch-off’ mechanism for operators contracted by Great British Railways
• PR23 draft determination: impact assessment on provision to allow for recalibration of Schedule 8 within control periods

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