Question follow-through · 109694
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Jews and Sikhs
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment their Department has made of trends in the level of discrimination faced by (a) Sikhs and (b) Jews as ethnic groups in the provision of their Department's service
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
- 9 Mar 2026 · 39 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, what assessment their Department has made of trends in the level of discrimination faced by (a) Sikhs and (b) Jews as ethnic groups in the provision of their Department's service
2 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Mar 2026
Answer published
Public bodies usually collect ethnicity data in line with the ethnicity harmonised standard, which is developed by the independent Office for National Statistics.The current harmonised standard is based on the 2011 Census questions used across the UK; tho...
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 tackle antisemitism.
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.