Home Office: Ethnic Groups

Summary

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 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.

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1. 10 July 2025

   Written question

   To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 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.

   Source: Commons

2. 21 July 2025

   Answer

   The Home Office collects 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 qu...

   Source: Written answer

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