Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Steve Double Excerpts
Wednesday 12th June 2019

(5 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Victoria Atkins Portrait Victoria Atkins
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Again, I am genuinely sorry because I am afraid I am not familiar with some of the instances the hon. Lady has just set out. [Interruption.] Really. But the point of the action plan is that it focuses on the five themes of preventing hate crime by challenging prejudicial beliefs and attitudes, responding to hate crime within our communities, increasing the reporting of hate crime, improving support for victims of hate crime and building our understanding of hate crime. Again, each and every one of us in this House and beyond can play our part in tackling the hate and showing that we are a modern, diverse and welcoming country for everyone.

Steve Double Portrait Steve Double (St Austell and Newquay) (Con)
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4. What recent discussions she has had with the Minister for the Cabinet Office on ensuring that all UK national minorities are given equal status in the next census.

Kevin Foster Portrait The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office (Kevin Foster)
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I respect the passion of my hon. Friends from Cornwall in their campaign for Cornish national identity. However, the Government will be guided by the ONS’s recommendations to the Government and Parliament regarding particular questions in the next census. Everyone who wishes to identify their chosen national identity will be able to do so in the 2021 census.

Steve Double Portrait Steve Double
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I thank the Minister for his response, but the Cornish continue to be the only UK national minority unable to identify themselves in the census by way of a tick box. Does the Minister agree that this falls short of equality of recognition for the Cornish?