1. National Accounts Plans for 2015-16 Mairi Spowage

2. Reflection on 2014-15

3. April-July GDP – Full year 2013, Grangemouth shutdown Productivity UK Statistics Authority requirements for QNAS I-O Manual balance Publication of I-O GDP Q1 2014 – Pre-recession peak Commonwealth Games – start of a large programme of impact work

4. August Retail Sales – large and small retailer split QNAS – National Statistics – “The efforts of the team to introduce a range of improvements to [QNAS] and the supporting documentation are commendable” Carbon Budget work

5. September UK ESA 10!!

6. October -December GDP Q2 2014 – ESA 10 impact on UK figures – ESA 10 plans accelerated – Other developments put on hold Oil and Gas User Meeting – Delay in publication and change in timing – Reformulation of the satellite account proposal Regional Accounts QA GERS Consultation

7. January-March GDP Q3 2014 – Commonwealth Games Oil and Gas Statistics Q3 GERS Consultation & analysis QNAS – including provisional ESA 10 GERS publication – improved publication & time series ESA 10 GDP preparation

8. Key projects for 2015-16

9. Public Sector Finances GERS – Purpose – Timeliness – Level of detail and methods of dissemination ONS State Government Account Publication of revenues – Revenue Scotland collected revenues – Timeliness / Format

10. Publication Programme Changes in 2014-15 to programme – Oil and Gas Statistics Further changes proposed – Revenues – GERS – Experimental Trade Balance GDP timing

11. Short-term Indicators National Accounts Unit 2015-16 Input -Output Scottish National Accounts Quarterly Series – GDP, IME & RSIS System Improvement & Data Development I-O Publication July Commonwealth Games EXP Dev: Oil & Gas Statistics Productivity GNI Budget 2016-17 - Carbon budget Customer Engagement I/O – GDP – QNA Reweight April-July – ESA 10 Quarterly National Accounts Public Sector Finances CGE Data Developments Scottish Business Survey

12. Projects ESA 10 – Implementation of changes through coherence with Supply Use tables – Other data and methodological improvements – Publication of GDP at market prices & GDP per head in volume terms System Improvement & Data Development Timeliness Improvement – Trial internally for July, roll out by October Refresh of Monthly Survey top-up – Scottish Business Survey Administration Stocktake & Improvement Short-term Indicators Core Business Quarterly Series – GDP, IME, RSIS – April & July Ad-hoc requests Customer and Supplier Engagement

13. Project Related Purchases Inquiry – work with ONS as a key stakeholder and user Budget 2016-17 – Impact Assessments & Environmental Satellite (Carbon Budget) Commonwealth Games – Impact Assessments & Legacy work CGE Data Development Tourism Statistics Oil and Gas column Investigation of PYP Tables Core Business I-O Publication July Ad-hoc Economic Impact Assessments Input-Output

14. Project Related Public Sector Finances – GERS 2014-15 – Revenues Information – GG / State Government Account Experimental Product Development – Oil & Gas statistics – Official Statistics – Productivity – Sector Income Account & GNI – revisited following ESA 10 Capital Investment Data investigation Core Business Quarterly National Accounts Scotland Ad-hoc requests Regional Accounts reconciliation Scottish National Accounts

15. Project Related Customer Engagement I/O – GDP – QNA Reweight on ESA 10 basis – GDP published using provisional ESA 10 weights in April – Similarly for QNAS in May – I/O & GDP released together in mid-July – Quarterly National Accounts in August Publication programme Revisions Strategy Core Business Communications & Ministerial Engagement Ad-hoc briefing requests Overarching work

16. National Accounts Plans for 2015-16 Mairi Spowage Mairi.spowage@scotland.gsi.gov.uk