Written questions

NHS: Travellers

Lords · Question HL1693 · Tabled 16 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 25 Oct 2024

Question

Asked by Baroness Whitaker

To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made in updating the NHS Data ethnicity categories in line with the 2021 Census categories, to include Gypsies, Travellers and Roma.

Answer

Answered by Baroness Merron, 25 Oct 2024

NHS England has continued to work at a national level on behalf of the Department, as part of a wider equality monitoring review programme, to explore options for how best to update equality monitoring arrangements by reference to the protected characteri...