Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Ethnic Groups

Summary

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, 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 Dep

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1. 10 July 2025

   Written question

   To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, 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 Dep

   Source: Commons

2. 22 July 2025

   Answer

   MHCLG do collect data on religion and/or belief. This includes Jewish and Sikh options. This data is collected separate to ethnic group dataWe collect ethnicity data in line with the ethnicity harmonised standard, which is developed by the independent Off...

   Source: Written answer

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