Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Ethnic Groups

Summary

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he 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 his Department

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1. 10 July 2025

   Written question

   To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he 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 his Department

   Source: Commons

2. 24 July 2025

   Answer

   Defra 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; those questions wer...

   Source: Written answer

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