Preet Kaur Gill MP: written questions
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Written questions
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Ethnic GroupsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 3 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117376More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department was invited by the Office for National Statistics to provide evidence or input into its review of the ethnicity harmonised standard.
Answer: A review of the harmonised standard for ethnicity data collection is underway by the Government Statistical Service Harmonisation team. A public consultation between October 2025 and February 2026 sought views from a wide range of users, including Governm...
Answered 11 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport: Ethnic GroupsDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 3 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117375More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department was invited by the Office for National Statistics to provide evidence or input into its review of the ethnicity harmonised standard.
Answer: A review of the harmonised standard for ethnicity data collection is underway by the Government Statistical Service Harmonisation team. A public consultation between October 2025 and February 2026 sought views from a wide range of users, including Governm...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordAttorney General's Office: Ethnic GroupsAttorney GeneralTabled 3 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117374More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, whether her Department was invited by the Office for National Statistics to provide evidence or input into its review of the ethnicity harmonised standard.
Answer: A review of the harmonised standard for ethnicity data collection is underway by the Government Statistical Service Harmonisation team.A public consultation between October 2025 and February 2026 sought views from a wide range of users, including Governme...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: Ethnic GroupsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117373More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department was invited by the Office for National Statistics to provide evidence or input into its review of the ethnicity harmonised standard; and what evidence it submitted, including
Answer: The Department was invited by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) to provide evidence. The Department has not responded, deferring to NHS England, who are leading work on the Unified Information Standard for Protected Characteristics (UIPSC). The UISP...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordHome Office: Ethnic GroupsHome OfficeTabled 3 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117372More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department was invited by the Office for National Statistics to provide evidence or input into its review of the ethnicity harmonised standard; and what evidence it submitted, including in
Answer: The Home Office was invited by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to input to the consultation on the ethnicity harmonised standard. Any changes recommended to the ethnicity harmonisations standard will be applied to our departmental statistics, whe...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Ethnic GroupsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 3 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117371More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department was invited by the Office for National Statistics to provide evidence or input into its review of the ethnicity harmonised standard; and what evidence it s
Answer: A review of the harmonised standard for ethnicity data collection is underway by the Government Statistical Service Harmonisation team. A public consultation between October 2025 and February 2026 sought views from a wide range of users, including Governm...
Answered 9 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Business and Trade: Ethnic GroupsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 3 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117370More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department was invited by the Office for National Statistics to provide input into its review of the ethnicity harmonised standard.
Answer: A review of the harmonised standard for ethnicity data collection is underway by the Government Statistical Service Harmonisation team. A public consultation between October 2025 and February 2026 sought views from a wide range of users, including Governm...
Answered 11 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: Ethnic GroupsCabinet OfficeTabled 3 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117369More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Office for National Statistics sought input from Government departments as part of its review of harmonised standards on ethnicity classification.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon lady’s Parliamentary Question of 3rd March is attached.
Answered 11 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordGender: DatabasesCabinet OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 116091More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Office for National Statistics has a timetable to implement the Sullivan Review’s recommendation that biological sex is collected as a distinct data variable in all Government statistical outputs.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon lady’s Parliamentary Question of 25th February is attached.
Answered 9 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordGender: Census and SurveysCabinet OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 116090More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how the ONS will ensure that the design of questions in major surveys and censuses, including ONS surveys, departmental surveys and Census outputs, conform with the Sullivan Review recommendation that “sex shoul
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon lady’s Parliamentary Question of 25th February is attached.
Answered 9 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordGender: DatabasesCabinet OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 116089More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure that administrative datasets, including health, justice, education and crime datasets, will collect data on biological sex.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon lady’s Parliamentary Question of 25th February is attached.
Answered 9 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordGender: DatabasesCabinet OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 116088More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Sullivan Review’s recommendation that data on biological sex should be collected as the default and distinct from gender identity, what formal guidance and harmonised data standards the UK Statis
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon lady’s Parliamentary Question of 25th February is attached.
Answered 9 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordGender Identity Development ServiceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115483More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to implement the recommendation in the Cass Review to undertake a comprehensive tracing and long-term follow-up study of the approximately 9,000 children and you
Answer: The Government and NHS England have made a clear commitment to implement all the recommendations in the Cass Review’s final report, and this includes the data linkage study.The data linkage study remains an important commitment within the wider national r...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordGender Identity Development ServiceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115482More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what timetable he has set for commissioning and commencing a tracing and follow-up study of former GIDS patients.
Answer: The Government and NHS England have made a clear commitment to implement all the recommendations in the Cass Review’s final report, and this includes the data linkage study.The data linkage study remains an important commitment within the wider national r...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordGender Dysphoria: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115481More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will mandate data sharing across NHS trusts and adult gender services to enable a robust, independent longitudinal study consistent with the recommendations of the Cass Review.
Answer: The Government and NHS England have made a clear commitment to implement all the recommendations in the Cass Review’s final report, and this includes the data linkage study.The data linkage study remains an important commitment within the wider national r...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordGender Identity Development ServiceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115480More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has held discussions with NHS adult gender clinics on cooperation with researchers commissioned to undertake follow-up work on former Gender Identity Development Service patients.
Answer: The Government and NHS England have made a clear commitment to implement all the recommendations in the Cass Review’s final report, and this includes the data linkage study.The data linkage study remains an important commitment within the wider national r...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordGender Identity Development ServiceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115479More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the absence of outcome data on the cohort of young people treated by the Gender Identity Development Service during the period in which referr
Answer: The Government and NHS England have made a clear commitment to implement all the recommendations in the Cass Review’s final report, and this includes the data linkage study.The data linkage study remains an important commitment within the wider national r...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordArmenia: Religious FreedomForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 23 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115017More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer 17 November 2026 to Question 89462 on Armenia: Religious Freedom, what steps her Department is taking to monitor developments in relations between the
Answer: UK officials in London and at the our Embassy in Yerevan continue to monitor developments in the relationship between the Armenian Government and the Armenian Apostolic Church. We have consistently underlined the importance of all actions being fully in l...
Answered 3 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordMusic and Dance SchemeDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 114990More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she to help support the Music and Dance Scheme Schools that face financial challenges.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Birmingham Edgbaston to the answer of 12 February 2026 to Question 111332.
Answered 3 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordMusic and Dance SchemeDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 114988More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to help provide long-term funding certainty for schools supported by the Music and Dance Scheme.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Birmingham Edgbaston to the answer of 12 February 2026 to Question 111332.
Answered 3 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordDance and Music: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 114987More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that children from non-privileged backgrounds have access to music and dance training, including through supporting the Music and Dance Scheme Schools.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Birmingham Edgbaston to the answer of 12 February 2026 to Question 111332.
Answered 3 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordEthnic Groups: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 3 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 110454More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the level of respondent burden to provide evidence on the need for an additional data point in the consultation entitled Assessing User Needs for Additional Response Options for th
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon lady’s Parliamentary Question of 3rd February is attached.
Answered 9 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordEqual Pay: Ethnic GroupsCabinet OfficeTabled 22 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 107740More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the ethnic pay gap reporting framework will require employers to record and report pay gap data for Jewish and Sikh employees as distinct ethnic groups.
Answer: Our consultation on ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting closed in June 2025. The consultation sought views on the proposed approach, including whether ethnicity data should be collected following the Government Statistical Service (GSS) Ethnicity H...
Answered 29 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordBangladesh: Religious FreedomForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 19 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106567More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent representations she has made to her Bangladeshi counterpart on reports of violence against Hindu communities and the safety of religious minorities.
Answer: The UK condemns all religiously motivated violence in Bangladesh.We have consistently raised the importance of protecting religious minorities with the Bangladeshi authorities, including during visits by the UK Human Rights Ambassador in February 2025, an...
Answered 27 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordPlacenta Accreta Spectrum: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106183More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of suspected Placenta Accreta Spectrum were (a) recorded antenatally and (b) confirmed at delivery in each of the last five years; and what the rate of missed antenatal diagnosis was
Answer: This data is not held centrally.
Answered 26 Jan 2026
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