Question follow-through · 69894
Jews and Sikhs: Statistics
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will ask the Office for National Statistics to update the ethnicity harmonised standard to include a tick box option for (a) Jews and (b) Sikhs.
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- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 22 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 2 Sept 2025 · 42 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will ask the Office for National Statistics to update the ethnicity harmonised standard to include a tick box option for (a) Jews and (b) Sikhs.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
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2 Sept 2025
Answer published
Public bodies usually collect ethnicity data in line with the ethnicity harmonised standard, which is developed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).The current harmonised standard is based on the 2011 Census questions used across the UK; those que...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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