Question follow-through · 59681
Department for Education: Sikhs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Sikhs are employed in her Department; and whether they are recorded as (a) an ethnic or (b) a religious group.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 12 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 27 Jun 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Sikhs are employed in her Department; and whether they are recorded as (a) an ethnic or (b) a religious group.
16 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Jun 2025
Answer published
According to the latest published Civil Service Statistics, as at 31 March 2024, 140 staff in the department, including associated executive agencies, recorded their religion as Sikh. These figures are published in Table A3 of the Civil Service Statistics...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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