Pre-release access list for Statistics for International Development: Provisional UK Aid Spend 2022
Published 5 April 2023
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Pre-Release Access to National Statistics
Pre-release access arrangements within the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) are in line with The Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008 which came into force on 1 December 2008. In particular, pre-release access is only allowed for a maximum of 24 hours.
The list below shows those FCDO ministers and officials, from both FCDO and other spending departments, who receive access in advance of publication under the terms of the Order to the following annual publications:
- Statistics for International Development: Provisional UK Aid Spend 2022
The officials on this restricted list are either involved in the production of briefing for FCDO ministers or are regularly called upon to give direct advice to ministers to enable them to comment on the figures shortly after publication.
There are a limited number of other UK government staff who will have pre-release access to the information because they are involved in the compilation or quality assurance of the data, or required to prepare comments for their respective departments.
Pre-Release Access list
Roles are FCDO unless stated otherwise:
- Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
- Minister for Development
- Permanent Under-Secretary
- Special Advisers to the Secretary of State (3 persons)
- Private Office to the Secretary of State (2 persons)
- Private Office to Minister for Development (2 persons)
- Private Office to the Permanent Under-Secretary (1 person)
- Private Office to the Special Advisers (1 person)
- Private Office to DG Finance and Corporate (1 person)
- Private Office to DG Humanitarian and Development (1 person)
- Chief Statistician
- Head of Profession for Statistics
- Director, Finance
- Deputy Director, Strategic Finance and ODA Management Dept
- Deputy Director, Communications
- Senior Communications Office
- Communications Officer (2 persons)
- Deputy Director, Development Policy Department (DPD) (1 person)
- Policy Adviser (DPD) (1 person)
- Policy Officer (DPD) (1 person)
- Counsellor, Development and UK Delegate to DAC
- ODA reporting lead for Science & Research (BEIS)
- Senior Policy Official – International Development (HM Treasury)
- Policy Adviser - International Development (HM Treasury) (2 persons)
- International Community and ODA Lead (Home Office)
- Department for Education (2 persons)