Question follow-through · 66608
Cabinet Office: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing specific (a) Sikh and (b) Jewish options for a person’s ethnic group in data collection conducted by his Department.
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 13 Aug 2025 · 34 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing specific (a) Sikh and (b) Jewish options for a person’s ethnic group in data collection conducted by his Department.
14 Jul 2025
Target answer date
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13 Aug 2025
Answer published
Public bodies usually collect ethnicity data in line with the ethnicity harmonised standard, which is developed by the independent Office for National Statistics. The Cabinet Office also uses these standards to collect diversity data.The current harmonise...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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