Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Ethnic Groups
Commons · Question 66609 · Tabled 10 Jul 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Official record
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Preet Kaur Gill
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she 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 her Department.
Answer
Answered by Stephanie Peacock, 18 Jul 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 current harmonised standard is based on the 2011 Census questions used across the UK; tho...