Written Question·Scotland Office·UIN 118556
Scotland Office: Ethnic Groups
Tabled: 6 March 2026
Answered: 19 March 2026
Question
Preet Kaur Gill
Labour (Co-op) — Birmingham Edgbaston
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what evidence his Department submitted to the Office for National Statistics' review of the ethnicity harmonised standard, including in relation to the recording of Sikhs and Jewish people as ethnic groups.
Answer
Kirsty McNeillThe Scotland Office does not employ staff directly. All staff that join do so on an assignment, loan or secondment for other Government departments, who remain the employers.As information relating to the demographics of staff is held by the employing dep...
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