Department of Health and Social Care: Ethnic Groups
Commons · Question 117373 · Tabled 3 Mar 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by Preet Kaur Gill
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department was invited by the Office for National Statistics to provide evidence or input into its review of the ethnicity harmonised standard; and what evidence it submitted, including
Answer
Answered by Zubir Ahmed, 10 Mar 2026
The Department was invited by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) to provide evidence. The Department has not responded, deferring to NHS England, who are leading work on the Unified Information Standard for Protected Characteristics (UIPSC). The UISP...