Sikhs
Commons · Question 6582 · Tabled 3 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 12 Jun 2026
Question
Asked by Jas Athwal
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment has her Department made of the implications for her policies of Sikhs not being recognised as a distinct ethnic group within official ethnicity classifications.
Answer
Answered by Nesil Caliskan, 12 Jun 2026
The GSS ethnicity harmonised standard helps to make statistics and data more comparable, consistent and coherent. MHCLG collects data in line with the ethnicity harmonised standard, which is developed by the independent Office for National Statistics. I r...