Question follow-through · 66623
Northern Ireland Office: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 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.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Northern Ireland Office
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 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
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Northern Ireland Office 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 acr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Northern Ireland Office: Ethnic Groups
3 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether his Department was invited by the Office for National Statistics to provide evidence or input into its review of the ethnicity harmonised standard.
Northern Ireland Office: Ethnic Groups
6 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what evidence his Department submitted to the Office for National Statistics' review of the ethnicity harmonised standard, including in relation to the recording of Sikhs and Jewish people as ethnic grou