Treasury: Ethnic Groups
Commons · Question 66616 · Tabled 10 Jul 2025 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Preet Kaur Gill
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 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 James Murray, 17 Jul 2025
HM Treasury follows guidance from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Government Statistical Service (GSS) on data collection using harmonised standards to ensure comparability across government. The current ethnicity standard is based on 2011 Ce...