Question to the Scotland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether his Department was invited by the Office for National Statistics to provide input into its review of the ethnicity harmonised standard.

The Scotland Office does not employ staff directly. All staff that join do so on an assignment, loan or secondment for other Government departments, who remain the employers.

As information relating to the demographics of staff is held by the employing departments, the Scotland Office is not able to provide evidence into the review of the ethnicity harmonised standard.