Ministry of Justice: Ethnic Groups
Commons · Question 66621 · Tabled 10 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Preet Kaur Gill
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, 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 Alex Davies-Jones, 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 (ONS).The Ministry of Justice collects ethnicity data in line with the ethnicity harmonised s...