Explanatory note

Section 6(1)(a) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 provides that statistics produced by the Statistics Board, a government department, the Scottish Administration, a Welsh ministerial authority, a Northern Ireland department, or any other person acting on behalf of the Crown are official statistics.

This Order specifies that the statistics produced, or to be produced, by the persons listed in the Schedule are also official statistics. Article 2(2) provides that this does not apply to wholly Scottish devolved statistics. Scottish devolved statistics are defined in section 66 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.