Question follow-through · 66615
Department for Work and Pensions: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 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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A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- 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
10 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 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.
14 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jul 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 current harmonised standard is based on the 2011 Census questions used across the UK; th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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