| Heading: |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Sikhs |
| Question ID: |
1812296 |
| UIN: |
59677 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-12 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5227 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Jas Athwal
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| Asking Member handle: |
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Jas Athwal
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many Sikhs are employed in his Department; and whether they are recorded as (a) an ethnic or (b) a religious group. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-19 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4523 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Catherine West
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| Answering Member handle: |
catherinewest1
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@catherinewest1
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office staff can share if they are Sikh via the religion category on our people management system. 0.8 per cent of UK Based Staff have shared that they are Sikh. |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
208 |
| Answering body name: |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |