Question follow-through · 54329
Sikhs: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what data her Department holds on the number of Sikh people living in deprivation.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jun 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what data her Department holds on the number of Sikh people living in deprivation.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jun 2025
Answer published
We do not hold or collect data specifically on people from religious communities living in deprivation. The Indices of deprivation (2019) are publicly available and can be used to identify patterns of deprivation across England and Wales which could subse...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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