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Department for Work and Pensions: Ethnic Groups

Asked by Preet Kaur GillLabour (Co-op)Department for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 18 March 2026UIN 118559

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what evidence his Department submitted to the Office for National Statistics' review of the ethnicity harmonised standard, including in relation to the recording of Sikhs and Jewish people as ethnic gro

Answered by Andrew Western

I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave on 10 March 2026 to Question UIN 117831.

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