Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 117383

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Ethnic Groups

Tabled: 3 March 2026
Answered: 11 March 2026

Question

Preet Kaur Gill

Labour (Co-op)Birmingham Edgbaston

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department was invited by the Office for National Statistics to provide input into its review of the ethnicity harmonised standard.

Answer

Chris Elmore
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) was made aware of the Government Statistical Service's public consultation on the harmonised standard for ethnicity data collection in the UK. The FCDO did not submit a response given the domestic fo...

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