Commentary on Sections and Schedules Part 1: the Statistics Board Section 10 Code of Practice for Statistics
57.This section requires the Board to prepare (in consultation with others as appropriate), adopt and publish a Code of Practice for Statistics. This Code will contain the standards against which National Statistics will be assessed. It is expected that the Board, in drawing up the Code, will have due regard to the current National Statistics Code of Practice(10).
58.Subsection (2) allows the Board, at any time, to revise its Code of Practice and to publish the revised version once it has done so.
59.Subsection (3) requires that, in preparing or revising the Code, the Board must consult the Scottish Ministers, the Welsh Ministers, the Department of Finance and Personnel for Northern Ireland and any others it sees fit. Among those the Board might be expected to consult are key users of data in government (including Ministers) and outside (for example academics, researchers and business) as well as producers and providers of data.