Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Ethnic Groups
Commons · Question 66622 · Tabled 10 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Preet Kaur Gill
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, 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 Dep
Answer
Answered by Alex Norris, 22 Jul 2025
MHCLG do collect data on religion and/or belief. This includes Jewish and Sikh options. This data is collected separate to ethnic group dataWe collect ethnicity data in line with the ethnicity harmonised standard, which is developed by the independent Off...