PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Death Certificates: Ethnic Groups (22 June 2020)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to include ethnicity on death certificates.
Asked by:
Sarah Owen (Labour)
Asked by:
Sarah Owen (Labour)
Answer
The statistical information currently recorded in a death registration (and subsequently on certificates) is determined by the Office for National Statistics and prescribed by law. There are currently no plans to record ethnicity.
Answered by:
Kevin Foster (Conservative)
25 June 2020
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