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Wales Office: Ethnic Groups

Asked by Preet Kaur GillLabour (Co-op)Wales OfficeTabled Answered 15 July 2025UIN 66625

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, 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.

Answered by Jo Stevens

My Department is not an employer in its own right and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) provide employment services on our behalf, including setting ethnicity data categories for collection.

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