Question follow-through · 109692
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Jews and Sikhs
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether data recorded by the department classifies (a) Sikhs and (b) Jews as religious or ethnic groups.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 29 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 10 Feb 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether data recorded by the department classifies (a) Sikhs and (b) Jews as religious or ethnic groups.
2 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Feb 2026
Answer published
As is usual practice for public bodies, the data recorded by this department is in line with the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) harmonised standard and therefore classifies Sikhs and Jews as religious groups. The ONS current harmonised standard doe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Antisemitism
2 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to help protect Jewish people in the UK.
Sikhs
3 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment has her Department made of the implications for her policies of Sikhs not being recognised as a distinct ethnic group within official ethnicity classifications.
Sikhs
3 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which major Government datasets do not permit the identification of Sikhs as a distinct ethnic group.