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Written Question
Sikhs
Thursday 8th February 2024

Asked by: Preet Kaur Gill (Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham, Edgbaston)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the report by the Office for National Statistics entitled Equalities data audit, final report, published on 25 October 2018, how many and what proportion of the datasets audited as part of that process included data on Sikhs.

Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon lady’s Parliamentary Question of 5th February is attached.


Written Question
Concrete: Research
Wednesday 10th January 2024

Asked by: Preet Kaur Gill (Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham, Edgbaston)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will (a) form a national team of academics and industrialists to assess the implications for his policies of the conclusions of public-funded research that has been undertaken on RAAC and (b) request that Innovate UK issue a call for proposals under a unified RAAC theme on (i) non-contact structural integrity assessment, (ii) contact-based structural integrity assessment, (iii) short-term solutions to address the problem, (iv) strategies for long-term solutions, (v) a review of previously published research and (vi) the development of new codes of practice with a view to minimise the probability of such materials-based problems arising in the future.

Answered by Alex Burghart - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

Whilst some research has been carried out and is underway, it is important to pursue further research into Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC). The Cabinet Office is already working with the Government Office for Science, Innovate UK, academics, professional bodies, industry and other stakeholders to prioritise future research requirements.


Written Question
Open Government Partnership
Monday 3rd July 2023

Asked by: Preet Kaur Gill (Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham, Edgbaston)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government has provided evidence to the Open Government Partnership Independent Reporting Mechanism of meeting the minimum standards during implementation of the 2021-23 Action Plan.

Answered by Alex Burghart - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

Evidence of the UK meeting the Open Government Partnership’s (OGP) minimum participation requirements for the implementation of the Fifth National Action Plan for Open Government (NAP5) was sent to OGP on 29th June. This follows the latest meeting of the UK’s Multi-Stakeholder Forum on 22nd June which reviewed progress with implementing NAP5 and launched the co-creation process for the Sixth National Action Plan for Open Government (NAP6).


Written Question
Death: Statistics
Wednesday 1st February 2023

Asked by: Preet Kaur Gill (Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham, Edgbaston)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of data collection methods for mortality statistics broken down by religious group.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon. Member's Parliamentary Question of 26 January is attached.


Written Question
Death: Statistics
Tuesday 31st January 2023

Asked by: Preet Kaur Gill (Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham, Edgbaston)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish excess deaths data broken down by religious group of the deceased in the last three years.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon. Member's Parliamentary Question of 26 January is attached.


Written Question
Migration: Statistics
Monday 16th January 2023

Asked by: Preet Kaur Gill (Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham, Edgbaston)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Office for National Statistics plans to publish detailed migration data from the 2021 Census.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon. Member's Parliamentary Question of 6 January is attached.


Written Question
Sikhs
Thursday 12th January 2023

Asked by: Preet Kaur Gill (Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham, Edgbaston)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Sikh Names Research Report published by the Office for National Statistics as part of its December 2018 update on research and testing of 2021 Census questions and topics, whether he plans to hold discussions with the National Statistician on the potential merits of conducting a further research exercise using names to produce an estimate of the number of people identifying as Sikh who may not have been recorded as Sikhs in the 2021 census because they (a) did not answer the optional religion question or (b) stated in answer to that question that they had no religion.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon. Member's Parliamentary Question of 20 December is attached.


Written Question
Sikhs
Tuesday 6th December 2022

Asked by: Preet Kaur Gill (Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham, Edgbaston)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the data by the Office for National Statistics entitled Religion, England and Wales: Census 2021, published on 29 November 2022, if he will make an assessment of the accuracy of the estimate of the number of people who are of Sikh ethnicity, in the context of there not being an option to choose Sikh ethnicity on the 2021 census form.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon. Member's Parliamentary Questions: PQ98820 and PQ98821 are attached.


Written Question
Sikhs
Tuesday 6th December 2022

Asked by: Preet Kaur Gill (Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham, Edgbaston)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the data by the Office for National Statistics entitled Religion, England and Wales: Census 2021, published on 29 November 2022, what steps his Department has taken to estimate the number of people who identify as Sikh by (a) ethnicity and (b) religion.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon. Member's Parliamentary Questions: PQ98820 and PQ98821 are attached.


Written Question
Special Advisers: Termination of Employment
Thursday 21st July 2022

Asked by: Preet Kaur Gill (Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham, Edgbaston)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any special advisers to Government have had their contracts terminated since 4 July 2022.

Answered by Michael Ellis

Under paragraph 14b of the Model Contract for Special Advisers, a special adviser’s employment is automatically terminated when their appointing minister ceases to hold the ministerial office to which they were appointed to assist them.