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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Ethnic Groups

Commons · Question 118558 · Tabled 6 Mar 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 11 Mar 2026

Question

Asked by Preet Kaur Gill

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what evidence her Department submitted to the Office for National Statistics' review of the ethnicity harmonised standard, including in relation to the recording of Sikhs and

Answer

Answered by Chris Elmore, 11 Mar 2026

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) was made aware of the Government Statistical Service's public consultation on the harmonised standard for ethnicity data collection in the UK. The FCDO did not submit a response given the domestic fo...