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Scotland Office: Ethnic Groups

Commons · Question 117381 · Tabled 3 Mar 2026 · Scotland Office · Official record

Answered 11 Mar 2026

Question

Asked by Preet Kaur Gill

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether his Department was invited by the Office for National Statistics to provide input into its review of the ethnicity harmonised standard.

Answer

Answered by Kirsty McNeill, 11 Mar 2026

The Scotland Office does not employ staff directly. All staff that join do so on an assignment, loan or secondment for other Government departments, who remain the employers.As information relating to the demographics of staff is held by the employing dep...