Census: Sikhs

(asked on 13th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking in response to the 12 December 2019 judgment of the High Court in R (Gill on behalf of the Sikh Federation) v The Cabinet Office [2019] EWHC 3407 (Admin) to ensure that the Minister has responsibility for deciding upon the final form of the census particulars and the census questionnaires; and whether he plans to include in that final form a Sikh ethnic tick box response option.


Answered by
Chloe Smith Portrait
Chloe Smith
This question was answered on 21st January 2020

The claim for judicial review in respect of the making of the Census Order without a Sikh ethnicity tick-box, brought by Amrik Singh Gill on behalf of the Sikh Federation UK, was dismissed by the High Court in December. Permission to appeal to the High Court was refused. It would be inappropriate for Ministers to comment any further.

The final topics and questions to be included in the 2021 Census will be set in secondary legislation. The draft Census Order will be presented to both Houses in due course.

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