Home Office: Ethnic Groups
Commons · Question 66619 · Tabled 10 Jul 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Preet Kaur Gill
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 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 Seema Malhotra, 21 Jul 2025
The Home Office collects 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 qu...