Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Jews and Sikhs

Commons · Question 109694 · Tabled 29 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 9 Mar 2026

Question

Asked by Jas Athwal

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment their Department has made of trends in the level of discrimination faced by (a) Sikhs and (b) Jews as ethnic groups in the provision of their Department's service

Answer

Answered by Miatta Fahnbulleh, 9 Mar 2026

Public bodies usually collect ethnicity data in line with the ethnicity harmonised standard, which is developed by the independent Office for National Statistics.The current harmonised standard is based on the 2011 Census questions used across the UK; tho...