Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 117373

Department of Health and Social Care: Ethnic Groups

Tabled: 3 March 2026
Answered: 10 March 2026
Named Day

Question

Preet Kaur Gill

Labour (Co-op)Birmingham Edgbaston

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department was invited by the Office for National Statistics to provide evidence or input into its review of the ethnicity harmonised standard; and what evidence it submitted, including

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
The Department was invited by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) to provide evidence. The Department has not responded, deferring to NHS England, who are leading work on the Unified Information Standard for Protected Characteristics (UIPSC). The UISP...

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