Water Industry Commission for Scotland support – helping business save money

The Water Industry Commission for Scotland announced a scheme (worth a minimum of £50m) today that will ensure that business customers impacted by the crisis receive bills that more accurately reflect their current use of water and waste water services.

In addition, they state that unmetered and smaller businesses are eligible for a 60% deferral of their wholesale fixed charges backdated to 24 March 2020, so this should help a wider range of tourism businesses ongoing costs.   The scheme also allows those business customers who prepaid water and sewerage charges to their licensed providers to request a refund. Smaller customers receiving a refund are also eligible to apply for a deferral of their fixed wholesale charges.

In the first instance, business customers should contact their licensed provider who can apply for the scheme on their behalf.

Full press release is here.