Question follow-through · 117378

Department for Transport: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department was invited by the Office for National Statistics to provide evidence or input into its review of the ethnicity harmonised standard.

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Answering body: Department for Transport
Tabled: 3 Mar 2026
Target answer date: 5 Mar 2026
Answer: 6 Mar 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department was invited by the Office for National Statistics to provide evidence or input into its review of the ethnicity harmonised standard.
5 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Department for Transport was invited by the Office for National Statistics, via the Government Statistical Service harmonisation champions network, to respond to a consultation regarding possible changes to the standard for ethnicity categories.

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