In forceSolvency UK: insurance groupsLast checked 11 November 2026

Quarterly solvency return for an insurance group (QRG)

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

A quarterly snapshot of an insurance group as a whole: group balance sheet, income and expenses, lists of assets and derivatives (at the fourth quarter only) and group own funds. Groups using method 1 (accounting consolidation) for group solvency also report a balance sheet. Source

Official title: Quarterly Solvency II reporting Group

The facts

Who files
Firms or UK holding companies that must report information on a group to the PRA under the Group Supervision Part (Reporting Chapter 2A, Article 1(2)). Source
How often
Quarterly. The list of assets (IR.06.02.04) and fund look-through (IR.06.03.01) are submitted at quarter 4 only (Article 23(3)). Source
Deadline
No later than 55 business days after the end of each quarter of the group's financial year (Reporting 2.5B(6)). Source
Format
XBRL-XML. An XBRL instance for entry point QRG of the Bank of England Insurance Taxonomy, uploaded in BEEDS as an XBRL file or a zip containing it. Filing rules are in the Bank's XBRL Filing Manual v1.0.1. Source
Status
In force
Group
Solvency UK: insurance groups
Check a file before you file it

Line4 Check for Solvency UK runs the Bank of England's own validation rules on a QRG file in your browser, free. Your file never leaves your computer. What it runs, from its published manifest:

  • Bank of England Insurance Taxonomy 2.2.0: all 213 of the Bank's XBRL validation rules for this return.
  • Also the 49 filing checks from the Bank's XBRL Filing Manual v1.0.1.

It is not a substitute for the validation the supervisor runs when you submit.

Templates (9)

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

  • Content of the submission (IR.01.01.05)
  • Basic information - general (IR.01.02.04)
  • Balance sheet (IR.02.01.02)
  • Life income and expenditure (IR.05.03.02)
  • Non-life income and expenditure (IR.05.04.02)
  • List of assets (IR.06.02.04)
  • Collective investment undertakings - look-through approach (IR.06.03.01)
  • Open derivatives (IR.08.01.04)
  • Own funds (IR.23.01.04)

Templates of the v2.2.0 entry point, which applies to reporting reference dates on or after 31 December 2026 (frameworks DIS, IR, IMO and MAL take effect on 1 January 2027). Filings for earlier dates use taxonomy v2.0.2 or v2.1.0. Names are the Bank's template labels in the taxonomy. Source

Validation rules

213 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 v2.2.0 - IR.xlsx' (validations zip) whose 'Severity and modules' column names QRG, with 'Include in XBRL' = yes and 'Deactivated' = no (214), less 1 rule code set to 'Deactivate' on sheet 'Version 2.2.0' of the validation deny list. The sheet lists 223 rule codes for QRG in all; 9 have 'Include in XBRL' = no.

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

Public data

No published data from this return was found. No published data from this return was found on the Bank of England statistics pages checked (insurance aggregate data, annual and quarterly). Source

Official documents (21)

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.