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In forceSolvency UK: branches of overseas insurersLast checked 11 November 2026

Quarterly return for a UK branch of an overseas insurer (QRB)

A regulatory return listed by the Bank of England (PRA), insurers, United Kingdom.

A quarterly snapshot of a UK branch of an insurer based outside the UK: the branch balance sheet, income and expenses and the branch's technical provisions. Quarterly measurements may rely on estimates to a greater extent than annual ones (Article 37(2)). Source

Official title: Quarterly Solvency II reporting Third country branches

The facts

Who files
Third-country branch undertakings (insurers from outside the UK with a UK branch), other than Swiss general insurers and pure reinsurance branches (Reporting Chapter 2A, Articles 1(3) and 37). Source
How often
Quarterly, for quarters ending before 31 December 2026 (PS13/26 discontinues it from that date). Source
Deadline
No later than 30 business days after the end of each quarter of the firm's financial year (Reporting 2.5B(2)). Source
Format
XBRL-XML. An XBRL instance for entry point QRB of the Bank of England Insurance Taxonomy v2.1.0 (or v2.0.2), uploaded in BEEDS. Source
How it is filed
Filing routes recorded for the PRA: BEEDS (Bank of England Electronic Data Submission portal); Email to the Bank's insurance data mailbox. See how firms file with the PRA.
Status
In forceLast required for quarters before 31 December 2026. PS13/26 discontinues quarterly reporting for all third-country branches from 31 December 2026, and taxonomy v2.2.0 deletes the QRB entry point. Source
Legal basis
Group
Solvency UK: branches of overseas insurers

Templates (7)

The tables and forms inside the return. Plain name first, the PRA's code in brackets.

  • Content of the submission (IR.01.01.08)
  • Basic information - general (IR.01.02.07)
  • Balance sheet (IR.02.01.08)
  • Life income and expenditure (IR.05.03.02)
  • Non-life income and expenditure (IR.05.04.02)
  • Life technical provisions (IR.12.01.02)
  • Non-Life Technical Provisions (IR.17.01.02)

Templates of the QRB entry point in taxonomy v2.1.0 (Bank's labels). QRB is not in taxonomy v2.2.0. Source

Validation rules

103 rules, as counted from the PRA's published material. Software can run them exactly as published. Source

How they are written: XBRL Formula 1.0 assertions in the taxonomy package (val folder of each framework), plus an Excel list of every rule with its expression, severity and entry points.

The rules, on bankofengland.co.uk

How they were counted

Distinct rule codes in sheet 'ir' of 'Bank of England Insurance Taxonomy Validations v2.1.0 - IR.xlsx' (validations zip) whose 'Severity and modules' column names QRB, with 'Include in XBRL' = yes and 'Deactivated' = no (104), less 1 rule code set to 'Deactivate' on sheet 'Version 2.1.0' of the validation deny list. The sheet lists 110 rule codes for QRB in all; 6 have 'Include in XBRL' = no.

Counts are in the PRA's own unit, so they are not comparable with other regulators' counts.

Public data

Published only added up across firms. Third-country branch data is included in the Bank's quarterly insurance aggregate data from 2022 Q2. No firm-by-firm figures are published. Source

Where it is published (CSV and interactive charts)

  • Insurance aggregate data quarterly report

    Added up across firms · CSV and interactive charts

    A quarterly statistical release of aggregated UK insurance data built from the quarterly Solvency UK templates: SCR coverage, quality of capital, balance sheet, asset and bond breakdowns, and non-life lines of business, split life and non-life. Firm data is checked so no single firm can be identified. A CSV holds every charted figure; the latest file covers 2026 Q2. Source

Official documents (13)

The PRA's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 11 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

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Last checked 11 November 2026.