Readiness Assessment 7

Following the update provided at the Programme Steering Group (PSG) on Wednesday 4 February 2026 and the email communications issued on Friday 20 February 2026, the Programme has launched the next Readiness Assessment (RA7), for Central Party participant response.

The objectives, scope, approach and timings for RA7 are set out in the guidance pack, which you can access below:

Readiness Assessment 7 - Approach, Scope & Timeline

You will see that a number of the RA7 questions ask participants to provide evidence and confirm that they can deliver to the updated Migration Pathways volumes and profiling derived from the End-to-End (E2E) Participant Journey, Migration Pathways & Industry Standing Data (ISD) Publish Programme Participant Information Request (PPIR). We've provided a view of this profiling below, as well as additional information on the PPIR and Migration Pathways in the PPIR guidance pack below:

PPIR Guidance Pack: E2E Participant Journey, Migration Pathways & IISD Publish

All Central Parties, as outlined below, are required to respond to RA7 in line with your obligations set out in the Balancing & Settlement Code (BSC) Section C.

The response deadline is 17:00 on Monday 16 March 2026. 

Please note that responses should be provided in Microsoft (MS) Forms, for which relevant links are provided below.

MS Forms links:

• If you are responding on behalf of the Elexon Qualification Testing (QT) or Elexon BSC Qualification team, you can access the questions you need to respond to here
• If you are responding on behalf of the Retail Energy Code (REC) Code Manager, you can access the questions you need to respond to here
• If you are responding on behalf of the Data Integration Platform (DIP) Manager, you can access the questions you need to respond to here
• If you are responding on behalf of the Elexon Industry Standing Data (ISD) team, you can access the questions you need to respond to here
• If you are responding on behalf of the Elexon Service Management, Market Design, Assurance, Operational Support Manager (OSM) and/or Settlement Services teams, you can access the questions you need to respond to here
• If you are responding on behalf of the Data Communications Company (DCC), Electralink or a Licensed Distribution Systems Operator (LDSO), you can access the questions you need to respond to here

Please note: Elexon QT, Elexon BSC Qualification, REC Code Manager and DIP Manager teams will need to provide a response using their MHHS account due to the use of the file upload function in MS Forms. All other participants can provide a response using either their MHHS or organisation accounts. 

RA7 bilateral engagement

You should have received an invite from the Programme Party Coordinator (PPC) team to a bilateral meeting one week into the response window.

This acts as a review point with the Programme to discuss your draft responses and help increase quality and confidence in the final responses submitted.

Where to go for support

If you have any questions on RA7, please email the PPC team at PPC@mhhsprogramme.co.uk