Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Ethnic Groups
Commons · Question 66612 · Tabled 10 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 24 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Preet Kaur Gill
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 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 Daniel Zeichner, 24 Jul 2025
Defra 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; those questions wer...