Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 109694

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Jews and Sikhs

Tabled: 29 January 2026
Answered: 9 March 2026

Question

Jas Athwal

LabourIlford South

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment their Department has made of trends in the level of discrimination faced by (a) Sikhs and (b) Jews as ethnic groups in the provision of their Department's service

Answer

Miatta Fahnbulleh
Public bodies usually collect ethnicity data in line with the ethnicity harmonised standard, which is developed by the independent Office for National Statistics.The current harmonised standard is based on the 2011 Census questions used across the UK; tho...

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