Question follow-through · 109691

Home Office: Jews and Sikhs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her department records data on (a) Sikhs and (b) Jews as ethnic or religious data.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
29 Jan 2026
Target answer date
2 Feb 2026
Answer
17 Feb 2026 · 19 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her department records data on (a) Sikhs and (b) Jews as ethnic or religious data.

  2. 2 Feb 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Feb 2026

    Answer published

    The Home Office collects ethnicity data in line with the ethnicity harmonised standard, which is developed by the independent Office for National Statistics (ONS).The current harmonised standard is based on the 2011 Census questions used across the UK; th...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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