Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Official Statistics Order 2010.

(2) This Order comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Revocation

2.  The Official Statistics Order 2009(2) is revoked.

Official Statistics

3.—(1) To the extent that they are not otherwise official statistics by virtue of section 6(1)(a) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007, the statistics produced, or to be produced, by the persons listed in the Schedule to this Order are specified as official statistics for the purposes of section 6(1)(b) of that Act.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to statistics which are wholly Scottish devolved statistics.

Article 3(1)

SCHEDULE

• Arts Council of England

• Audit Commission for Local Authorities and the National Health Service in England

• Board of the Pension Protection Fund

• British Educational Communications and Technology Agency

• British Tourist Authority

• British Transport Police Authority

• Care Quality Commission

• Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland

• Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service

• Coal Authority

• Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment

• Commission for Rural Communities

• Competition Commission

• Consumer Council for Water

• Consumer Panel established under section 16 of the Communications Act 2003(3)

• Design Council

• English Sports Council

• Environment Agency

• Financial Services Authority

• Gambling Commission

• Health and Social Care Information Centre

• Health Protection Agency

• Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Constabulary

• Higher Education Statistics Agency

• Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England

• Homes and Communities Agency

• Independent Police Complaints Commission

• Joint Nature Conservation Committee

• Judicial Appointments Commission

• Marine Management Organisation

• Museums, Libraries and Archives Council

• National College for Leadership of Schools and Children’s Services Limited

• National Consumer Council

• National Lottery Commission

• National Patient Safety Agency

• National Policing Improvement Agency

• National Treatment Agency

• Natural England

• Natural Environment Research Council

• NHS Business Services Authority

• Northern Ireland Policing Board

• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

• Office of Communications

• Parole Board

• Pensions Regulator

• Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland

• Probation Board for Northern Ireland

• Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency

• Rail Passengers Council

• Regulator of Social Housing

• School Food Trust

• Student Loans Company

• Sustainable Development Commission

• Training and Development Agency for Schools

• UK Film Council

• United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

• Youth Justice Board for England and Wales

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 6(1)(a) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (“the Act”) 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 has the effect of designating the statistics produced, or to be produced, by the persons listed in the Schedule as official statistics, to the extent that they are not otherwise official statistics by virtue of section 6(1)(a) of the Act. This Order revokes the Official Statistics Order 2009 and provides an enlarged list of persons in the Schedule. The Schedule includes 57 persons of which 6 are new additions to the list, and 3 are omitted from the list in the previous Order. The new bodies to the list are the Marine Management Organisation, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (known as “Becta”), the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, the National College for Leadership of Schools and Children’s Services Limited and the NHS Business Services Authority.

The list includes a number of registered charities although this Order does not impose any additional burdens on them. An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.