Letter to registered providers - 15 December 2020
Published 15 December 2020
Applies to England
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Dear Colleague
Regulation fees in 2021-22
I am today writing in line with our commitment to informing providers of the indicative fees level in good time for budget planning purposes to provide an update on the level of fees we will be charging in 2021-22.
I am able to confirm that we will hold the overall level of our income from fees at the same level for 2021-22 as for 2020-21.
This is in recognition both of the above inflation fee increase this year and the resource pressures that providers face responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
You will be aware that this year we delayed the submission of the 2020 Statistical Data Return to recognise the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on provider workloads.
As a result we are not yet in a position to finally confirm the fee per unit which will be charged for 2021-22 however we currently expect that the fee per unit will not be higher than £5.37 per unit.
This is a reduction from last year’s level of £5.42 per unit. Fees for providers with fewer than 1,000 units will remain at £300 per year.
We will publish our annual fees statement in due course once we have received confirmation of our Grant in Aid budget from Government and will provide further guidance on fee per unit levels once SDR data returns have been fully analysed.
We anticipate issuing confirmation of the fees we will be charging providers in March 2020.
Yours faithfully
Richard Peden
Director of Finance and Corporate Services