Legislation

The operation of the UK’s statistical system is governed by the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (the Act), which received Royal Assent on 26 July 2007 and came into effect on 1 April 2008. 

The Act provided for the creation of a new Statistics Board – which operates as the UK Statistics Authority – with a statutory responsibility to promote and safeguard the production and publication of official statistics that serve the public good.

Under the Act, the Board was established as a non-ministerial Department, operating at arm’s length from Government.