A question on #Patients #EthnicGroups tabled by Preet Kaur Gill on 27-01-2025 has been answered by Karin Smyth.

Heading: Patients: Ethnic Groups
Question ID: 1758823
UIN: 26496
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-01-27
Asking Member ID: 4603
Asking Member display name: Preet Kaur Gill
Asking Member handle: PreetKGillMP
Asking Member Twitter reference: @PreetKGillMP
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of updating the national mandatory standard for the (a) collection and (b) analysis of ethnicity to include (i) Jewish, (
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Date answered: 2025-02-05
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Answering Member ID: 4444
Answering Member display name: Karin Smyth
Answering Member handle: karinsmyth
Answering Member Twitter reference: @karinsmyth
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Answer text: The merits of including Jewish or Sikh as an option when recording ethnicity in National Health Service data, and other issues relating to how the NHS records information on protected characteristics, are being considered by the Unified Information Standa...
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Answering body ID: 17
Answering body name: Department of Health and Social Care
Tweeted: true