1 min readBlockingBank of England taxonomy 2.2.0Updated 11 November 2026

Solvency capital requirement - health underwriting risk and solvency capital requirement - non-life and health catastrophe risk: values must agree (IR.26.04, IR.27.01, Bank of England rule IR_bv0631)

A blocking check on the solvency capital requirement - health underwriting risk (IR.26.04) and solvency capital requirement - non-life and health catastrophe risk (IR.27.01) templates, in the annual solo (ARS) return.

The rule in plain words

The item "Diversification between sub-modules" reported in Solvency Capital Requirement - Non-life and Health catastrophe risk (IR.27.01.01.01) should be equal to the difference between "Health catastrophe risk" and the sum of all risks reported

The headline gives only the template and the kind of check, because the rule is too long to say in a headline. The plain words above say all of it.

This is a blocking check. A return that fails it is normally rejected, so fix it before you submit. It runs only when your filing indicators mark IR.27.01 as reported.

The cells it reads

Solvency capital requirement - health underwriting risk - total health underwriting risk (IR.26.04.01.08)

Row

  • R1540Total health catastrophe risk

Column

  • C0280Gross solvency capital requirement

Solvency capital requirement - non-life and health catastrophe risk: non-life and health catastrophe risk - summary (IR.27.01.01.01)

Rows

  • R0300Health catastrophe risk
  • R0310Mass accident
  • R0320Accident concentration
  • R0330Pandemic
  • R0340Diversification between sub-modules

Columns

  • C0010SCR before risk mitigation
  • C0030SCR after risk mitigation

Solvency capital requirement - non-life and health catastrophe risk: health catastrophe risk - mass accident (IR.27.01.01.20)

Row

  • R3630Total Mass accident all countries after diversification

Columns

  • C1270Catastrophe Risk Charge before risk mitigation
  • C1300Catastrophe Risk Charge after risk mitigation

Solvency capital requirement - non-life and health catastrophe risk: health catastrophe risk - pandemic. total (IR.27.01.01.25)

Row

  • R4420Total Pandemic all countries

Columns

  • C1510Catastrophe Risk Charge before risk mitigation
  • C1540Catastrophe Risk Charge after risk mitigation

Solvency capital requirement - non-life and health catastrophe risk: health catastrophe risk - concentration accident (IR.27.01.01.26)

Row

  • R4040Total Concentration accident all countries after diversification

Columns

  • C1370Catastrophe Risk Charge before risk mitigation
  • C1400Catastrophe Risk Charge after risk mitigation

Which returns it applies to

Line4 Check runs it on annual solo (ARS) return on Bank of England taxonomy 2.2.0. The Bank of England applies it to annual solo (ARS) returns, as a blocking check.

The Bank’s own words and formula

In the Bank of England’s list of validations, word for word:

The item "Diversification between sub-modules" reported in IR.27.01.01.01 - Solvency Capital Requirement - Non-life and Health catastrophe risk should be equal to the difference between "Health catastrophe risk" and the sum of all risks reported.
Show the formulaShow

The Bank of England's formula. Cells are written as {t: table, r: row, c: column}.

{t: IR.27.01.01.01, r: R0340, z: Z0001} = {t: IR.27.01.01.01, r: R0300, z: Z0001} - {t: IR.27.01.01.01, r: R0310, z: Z0001} - {t: IR.27.01.01.01, r: R0320, z: Z0001} - {t: IR.27.01.01.01, r: R0330, z: Z0001}

Every Solvency UK rule on IR.26.04

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