No, economic statisticscurrently produced by the Executive will not fall within the responsibility of the new non-ministerial department for statistics.The work of the Office forNational Statistics (ONS), which produces much of the underlying data forExecutive statistics on the economy, will transfer to the Statistics Board.The new body can comment andgive advice on the economic statistics produced by the Executive but it willnot be responsible for their production though it will have a responsibility tosupply the Executive with economic statistics data in the same way that the ONSdoes now.