Scotland Office: Ethnic Groups
Commons · Question 118556 · Tabled 6 Mar 2026 · Scotland Office · Official record
Answered 19 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by Preet Kaur Gill
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what evidence his Department submitted to the Office for National Statistics' review of the ethnicity harmonised standard, including in relation to the recording of Sikhs and Jewish people as ethnic groups.
Answer
Answered by Kirsty McNeill, 19 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...