Include ethical veganism on the 2021 census.

Given that ethical veganism has now been confirmed as a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010, its numbers should be monitored by the Office for National Statistics and therefore the census.

This petition was rejected on 6th Jul 2020 for not being a Government or Parliamentary matter

The Petition Committee commented:
We can only accept petitions about things that the UK Government or the House of Commons are responsible for. The Office for National Statistics, not the UK Parliament or Government, is responsible for developing census questions. You can find out more here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/censustransformationprogramme/questiondevelopment You might like to make this suggestion to the ONS. You can find out how to contact them here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/contactus/generalandstatisticalenquiries


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