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Defra (the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs), with its Arms鈥� Length Bodies (ALBs), follows the requirements set out in the when publishing our statistics.

This statement sets out our operational arrangements for also implementing the separate requirements of the . These statutory rules primarily allow for giving relevant ministers, and a limited number of designated officials, access to official statistics once in their final form prior to publication.

The arrangements are designed to ensure that such Pre-release access (PRA) is justified, limited, controlled and publicised and complies with statutory requirements. The purpose is to maintain public confidence in the integrity of official statistics while allowing ministers to comment immediately on the implications of statistics covering policy or operational areas for which they are responsible.

This compliance statement applies directly to statistics teams in the core Department. The arrangements may also be adopted by our sponsored ALBs if they wish to do so in preference to publishing their own arrangements. It should be clearly stated on each ALBs website which compliance statement they follow.

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