Written Question·Women and Equalities·UIN 69894
Jews and Sikhs: Statistics
Tabled: 22 July 2025
Answered: 2 September 2025
Named DayQuestion
Preet Kaur Gill
Labour (Co-op) — Birmingham Edgbaston
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will ask the Office for National Statistics to update the ethnicity harmonised standard to include a tick box option for (a) Jews and (b) Sikhs.
Answer
Seema MalhotraPublic bodies usually collect ethnicity data in line with the ethnicity harmonised standard, which is developed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).The current harmonised standard is based on the 2011 Census questions used across the UK; those que...
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