Subject to the passage of thenecessary legislative consent motion (LCM), the Statistics and Registration ServiceBill will give the Statistics Board a rolein setting and monitoring the standards of Scottish statistics.If the LCM is passed, the chiefstatistician in the Scottish Executive will be accountable to Scottishministers as he is now.Inaccordance with the current National Statistics Framework, the chiefstatistician is professionally accountable to the national statistician.The bill does not set out theposition of the national statistician or the board in relation to chief statisticiansof the devolved administrations or the head of professions of UK governmentdepartments.