Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Ethnic Groups
Commons · Question 66617 · Tabled 10 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record
Answered 16 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Preet Kaur Gill
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development 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
Answer
Answered by Catherine West, 16 Jul 2025
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office follows the Government Statistical Service's harmonised standard for ethnicity classification. We will not unilaterally change our data categories as it would make our data inconsistent with wider Civil Ser...