Question follow-through · 66617
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, 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
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, 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
14 Jul 2025
Target answer date
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16 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office follows the Government Statistical Service's harmonised standard for ethnicity classification. We will not unilaterally change our data categories as it would make our data inconsistent with wider Civil Ser...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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