Future Ideas Lab submissions

We may publish responses to the Future Ideas Lab on our website at www.ofwat.gov.uk. Information provided in response to the Future Ideas Lab, including personal data, may be published or disclosed in accordance with legislation on access to information – primarily the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FoIA), the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and data protection law. For further information on how we process personal data please see our Privacy Policy. If you think that any of the information in your response should not be disclosed (for example, because you consider it to be commercially sensitive), you should identify that information and explain why, giving detailed reasons, which we will consider when deciding whether to publish it. Please be aware that, under the FoIA, there is a statutory ‘Code of Practice’ which deals, among other things, with obligations of confidence. If we receive a request for disclosure of the information, we will take full account of your explanation, but we cannot give an assurance that we can maintain confidentiality in all circumstances. An automatic confidentiality disclaimer generated by your IT system will not, of itself, be regarded as binding on Ofwat.