Department for Work and Pensions: Jews and Sikhs

(asked on 29th January 2026) - View Source
Questioner
Jas Athwal Portrait
Jas Athwal
(Labour - Ilford South)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether Sikhs and Jews are recorded as (a) ethnic or (b) religious groups by the agencies his department is responsible for.

Answered by
Andrew Western Portrait
Andrew Western
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 6th February 2026

The Department adheres to the current harmonised definitions for ethnicity and religion, which are owned and managed by the Office for National Statistics.

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