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Scotland Office: Ethnic Groups

Commons · Question 66624 · Tabled 10 Jul 2025 · Scotland Office · Official record

Answered 15 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Preet Kaur Gill

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, 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 Department.

Answer

Answered by Ian Murray, 15 Jul 2025

The Scotland Office does not hold information in relation to the ethnicity of staff.All staff that join the Scotland Office, do so on an assignment, loan or secondment from other Government bodies, principally the Ministry of Justice and the Scottish Gove...