Cabinet Office: Ethnic Groups
Commons · Question 66608 · Tabled 10 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office · Official record
Answered 13 Aug 2025
Question
Asked by Preet Kaur Gill
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing specific (a) Sikh and (b) Jewish options for a person’s ethnic group in data collection conducted by his Department.
Answer
Answered by Georgia Gould, 13 Aug 2025
Public bodies usually collect ethnicity data in line with the ethnicity harmonised standard, which is developed by the independent Office for National Statistics. The Cabinet Office also uses these standards to collect diversity data.The current harmonise...