Question follow-through · 84662
Travellers: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the style guide entitled Writing about ethnicity, updated in October 2024, for what reason references to travellers were capitalised.
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- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 29 Oct 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the style guide entitled Writing about ethnicity, updated in October 2024, for what reason references to travellers were capitalised.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Oct 2025
Answer published
In October 2024, the style guide ‘Writing about ethnicity’ on the Ethnicity facts and figures website was updated. While the guide makes no direct reference to the capitalisation of references to Travellers, a capital letter was used to align with the Go...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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