| Heading: |
Department for Work and Pensions: Ethnic Groups |
| Question ID: |
1821716 |
| UIN: |
66615 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-10 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4603 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Preet Kaur Gill
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| Asking Member handle: |
PreetKGillMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@PreetKGillMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing specific (a) Sikh and (b) Jewish options for a person’s ethnic group in data collection conducted by her Department. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-18 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4979 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Western
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| Answering Member handle: |
andrewhwestern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@andrewhwestern
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
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; th... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |