Written question asked by Preet Kaur Gill (Labour) on Thursday, 10 July 2025, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 14 July 2025. It was answered by Catherine West (Labour) on Wednesday, 16 July 2025 on behalf of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Ethnic Groups
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development 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.
- Answer
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The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office follows the Government Statistical Service's harmonised standard for ethnicity classification. We will not unilaterally change our data categories as it would make our data inconsistent with wider Civil Service and Office for National Statistics (ONS) statistics.
Secondary information
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- Written question
- Reference
- 66617
- Session
- 2024-26
- Subjects
- Databases Ethnic groups Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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- 2025-09-05 23:59:22 +0100
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