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Department for Transport: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she 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 her Department.

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
10 Jul 2025
Target answer date
14 Jul 2025
Answer
18 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she 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 her Department.

  2. 14 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 18 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    There are no plans for the Department for Transport to assess the potential merits of introducing specific (a) Sikh and (b) Jewish options for a person’s ethnic group as part of data collection. For analytical data collection, the Department follows Offic...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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