Question follow-through · 109690
Department for Work and Pensions: Jews and Sikhs
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether Sikhs and Jews are recorded as (a) ethnic or (b) religious groups by the agencies his department is responsible for.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 29 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 6 Feb 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether Sikhs and Jews are recorded as (a) ethnic or (b) religious groups by the agencies his department is responsible for.
2 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Feb 2026
Answer published
The Department adheres to the current harmonised definitions for ethnicity and religion, which are owned and managed by the Office for National Statistics.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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