To ask the Scottish Executive to what extent the advice the UK National Statistician and Registrar General has been followed since he wrote on 29 September 2004 to the Chief Statistician in relation to the National Statistics status of Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland (GERS) stating that the Executive “will of course want to ensure that the limitations of the data and the assumptions are made available to inform users, and that guidance is provided about what GERS should and should not be used for” The GovernmentExpenditure and Revenue in Scotland publication includes detailedinformation on the limitations of the data, the assumptions for the estimates,and its proper uses.