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SECR compliance tool

SI 2018/1155 · United Kingdom · Binding instrument

Name anyone on your staff. The system makes them your compliance person.

A member of your own staff, with no compliance background, reads the training module, answers the interview, and finishes with your SECR documentation cited article by article. The knowledge stays in the business.

Every account level runs inside a dedicated Claude account. Anyone can try a toolkit in their own Claude account; compliance work runs in a dedicated one. The Claude Max plan is £90 a month, paid to Anthropic, and is not included in any level.

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SECR is SI 2018/1155, a binding instrument in the United Kingdom. Streamlined energy and carbon reporting for quoted companies of any size and for large UK companies and LLPs.

The free assessment screens for SECR when a business has 250 or more employees or turnover above 36 million pounds. The Regulations bind a company or LLP that exceeds two of three, turnover above 36 million pounds, balance sheet above 18 million pounds and more than 250 employees, and every quoted company at any size.

Size screen: 250 or more employees and turnover above £36 million.

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• Your exact position under SECR: what is in place, what is missing, and what to do about each gap.
• Documentation with article citations, ready for auditors, insurers, customers and public buyers.
• A trained person inside the business who understands what the regulation requires, and stays.
• A dated record of every section completed, with the reports themselves staying in your own Claude account. The toolkit is carried by an account level, see the plans.
• All of it completed in-house, at your own pace, without booking a single meeting.

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Does SECR apply to my business?

SECR applies to a company that exceeds two of three thresholds: turnover above 36 million pounds, balance sheet above 18 million pounds, more than 250 employees. It also applies to every quoted company at any size, and to large limited liability partnerships on the same thresholds. The trigger is the size test in Part 7A of Schedule 7 to SI 2008/410 and regulation 12B of SI 2008/1911.

Who does SECR apply to?

It applies to quoted companies, large unquoted companies and large limited liability partnerships, plus their directors or members. Quoted companies report under Part 7 of Schedule 7 to SI 2008/410, large unquoted companies under the new Part 7A, and large LLPs under new regulation 12B of SI 2008/1911.

Does SECR apply to a small business?

No. Small and medium-sized companies are exempt. Companies and LLPs meeting the small-size qualifying conditions for two or more of the three thresholds are exempt, and the thresholds are turnover not more than 36 million pounds, balance sheet total not more than 18 million pounds, and employees not more than 250. A 40,000 kWh de minimis energy consumption threshold also exempts low-energy users.

When does SECR apply from, and what are the deadlines?

The Regulations came into force on 1 April 2019 under Reg 2(1) and have effect for financial years beginning on or after 1 April 2019 under Reg 2(2). SECR sets no filing dates itself: public companies file annual accounts within six months and private companies within nine months under sections 442 and 441 of the Companies Act 2006, and LLPs file within nine months.

What does SECR require me to do?

You must calculate and report energy consumption in kWh, greenhouse gas emissions in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, energy intensity ratios, calculation methodologies, energy efficiency measures and prior year comparatives. Quoted companies report under Part 7 of Schedule 7, large unquoted companies under Part 7A, and large LLPs must prepare an energy and carbon report under regulation 12B.

What records or documents does SECR require me to keep or produce?

You must prepare, approve, sign and file a directors' report or an LLP energy and carbon report containing the SECR disclosures. Large LLPs must state the names of all members during the financial year and the designated member signing, under s.416(1) as applied, and deliver the report to the Registrar of Companies under s.446(2A) as applied.

What happens if I do not comply with SECR?

For LLPs, every member immediately before the end of the filing period commits a criminal offence if the LLP fails to prepare an energy and carbon report, unless all reasonable steps were taken, under s.415(6)-(7) as applied by Reg 12B. On conviction on indictment the penalty is an unlimited fine, and civil late-filing penalties apply under SI 2008/497.

How do I start complying with SECR?

The first practical step is the gateway determination: establish whether the entity is a quoted company, large unquoted company or large LLP and whether any exemptions apply. For LLPs this covers the duty to prepare an energy and carbon report each financial year under Reg 12B and s.415(1) as applied.

Which ComplianceSME account includes the SECR toolkit?

The SECR agent toolkit is included from the Medium level.

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