Question follow-through · 117370
Department for Business and Trade: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department was invited by the Office for National Statistics to provide input into its review of the ethnicity harmonised standard.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department was invited by the Office for National Statistics to provide input into its review of the ethnicity harmonised standard.
9 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Mar 2026
Answer published
A review of the harmonised standard for ethnicity data collection is underway by the Government Statistical Service Harmonisation team. A public consultation between October 2025 and February 2026 sought views from a wide range of users, including Governm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Department for Business and Trade: Ethnic Groups
6 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what evidence his Department submitted to the Office for National Statistics' review of the ethnicity harmonised standard, including in relation to the recording of Sikhs and Jewish people as ethnic gr