Inflation and the Cost of Debt

Awarded using Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Management Consultancy Framework Four (MCF4) (RM6309), Lot 4 Finance. Key parts of a price control include setting the cost of debt allowance and determining how the capital/asset value is indexed over time. There have been significant gains and losses by water companies from the inflation assumption used in our determinations being different to what occurs in practice. Citizens Advice estimate that the windfall to the water sector for the first 4 years of the PR19 perio...