Financial Memorandum
As set out in the Financial Memorandum accompanying the Bill, the Bill amends the existing statutory regime for PRA that is set out in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 and in the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Order 2008 in the following respects—
after a year, reducing (from one working day to 4 hours) the PRA limit for two specific categories of economic statistics (Gross Domestic Product and Retail Sales Index for Scotland), and then, after a further year, prohibiting PRA for such statistics altogether;
requiring an independent review of the impact of that reduction and removal;
the reduction from five working days to one of the PRA limit for other economic statistics.