Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to implement the 18+1 ethnicity monitoring system for data collection in education for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.

The Department follows the Office of National Statistics (ONS) and Government Statistical Service (GSS) harmonised standards for collecting and/or presenting statistics. More details about codes can be found here along with information on how the codes were chosen: https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/style-guide/ethnic-groups.