Jews and Sikhs: Statistics
Commons · Question 69933 · Tabled 22 Jul 2025 · Women and Equalities · Official record
Answered 2 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Preet Kaur Gill
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will ask the Office for National Statistics to change its policy that recommends excluding Jews and Sikhs from data collected on ethnicity in its ethnicity harmonised standard.
Answer
Answered by Seema Malhotra, 2 Sep 2025
Public bodies usually collect ethnicity data in line with the ethnicity harmonised standard, which is developed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).The current harmonised standard is based on the 2011 Census questions used across the UK; those que...