Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many Sikhs are employed in his Department; and whether they are recorded as (a) an ethnic or (b) a religious group.

There are 24 members of staff in the Department for International Trade (including UK Export Finance (UKEF)) who have self-reported as Sikh (as at 31 December 2018) on departmental systems. The Department records Sikhism as a religion.