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Cabinet Office: Sikhs

Asked by Jas AthwalLabourCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 20 June 2025UIN 59673

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Sikhs are employed in his Department; and whether they are recorded as (a) an ethnic or (b) a religious group.

Answered by Georgia Gould

Departments should be recording Sikh or Sikhism, as a religion or belief and not as an ethnicity.

Departments are advised to refer to Civil Service Statistics 2024 Table A3 where statistics on religion or belief by department as at 31 March 2024 are published: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2024. This includes statistics on those recorded as ‘Sikh’.

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