To support transparency, the bill requires the Statistician to publish information about delegations outside of Stats NZ, including what informed of any such decision. I note that these requirements were added in response to the Privacy Commissioner's late submission at the select committee. Like the Act it replaces, the bill only allows Stats NZ to collect data for official statistics and research. To be clear, the Statistician can only make mandatory requests for data for official statistics, not for research. It doesn't expand the scope of information-gathering powers across Government. In New Zealand, sharing of personal information between Government agencies is regulated through agency legislation or agreed information-sharing agreements and information-matching programmes under the Privacy Act.