Department for Work and Pensions: Ethnic Groups
Commons · Question 66615 · Tabled 10 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Preet Kaur Gill
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 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 Andrew Western, 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; th...