| Heading: |
Department for Work and Pensions: Sikhs |
| Question ID: |
1812422 |
| UIN: |
59685 |
| 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 Work and Pensions, how many Sikhs are employed in her 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: |
2025-06-20 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4979 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Western
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| Answering Member handle: |
andrewhwestern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@andrewhwestern
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
DWP staff are not required to disclose details of any religion, however, the information can be voluntarily provided and based on those responses, DWP as of May 2025 has 1207 employees that have declared as being Sikh (paid staff only). This level of data... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |