That's not a radical departure from how Stats New Zealand operated in the past, as I have said. What the bill does, though, is it gives the Government Statistician power to collect administrative data, and that will enable the Government Statistician to produce more timely and granular statistics with less burden on people, businesses, and communities. There are appropriate exceptions to this power—for instance, where it's expressly prevented by other legislation—so the Government Statistician is guided by that other legislation as well.