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Home Office: Jews and Sikhs

Commons · Question 109691 · Tabled 29 Jan 2026 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 17 Feb 2026

Question

Asked by Jas Athwal

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her department records data on (a) Sikhs and (b) Jews as ethnic or religious data.

Answer

Answered by Sarah Jones, 17 Feb 2026

The Home Office collects ethnicity data in line with the ethnicity harmonised standard, which is developed by the independent Office for National Statistics (ONS).The current harmonised standard is based on the 2011 Census questions used across the UK; th...