Every parliamentary written question tabled by Jas Athwal this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.
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Whether his Department can identify COVID-19 mortality rates, hospitalisation rates and infection rates among Sikhs.
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Gentleman's Parliamentary Question's of 3rd June is attached.
Whether his Department holds data on how many Sikhs died during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Gentleman's Parliamentary Question's of 3rd June is attached.
What estimate his Department has made of the number of Sikhs in the UK using (a) ethnicity and (b) religion data.
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Gentleman's Parliamentary Question of 3rd June is attached.
How many Sikhs are employed in his Department; and whether they are recorded as (a) an ethnic or (b) a religious group.
Departments should be recording Sikh or Sikhism, as a religion or belief and not as an ethnicity.Departments are advised to refer to Civil Service Statistics 2024 Table A3 where statistics on religion or belief by department as at 31 March 2024 are published: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2024. This includes statistics on those recorded as ‘Sikh’.
What steps he is taking to reduce fraud in the public sector.
This government is taking tough action to reduce public sector fraud.In January, we introduced the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill, giving us more tools to combat fraud, allowing government to investigate fraud, recover public money and sending fraudsters a clear message: you won’t get away with stealing public money.The Bill was introduced on 22nd January, and is currently being examined at the Committee Stage.Utilising emerging technology to counter fraud is vital. That’s why the Public Sector Fraud Authority uses advanced analytics and is developing artificial intelligence tools to help counter fraud experts better understand, prevent and detect fraud.