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Analysts suggest proposed switch in 2021 survey to non-binary sex question will make results harder to interpret

Black people in England and Wales are disproportionately more likely to have force used against them by police officers, especially firearms and Tasers, the first national statistics show.

The figures, published by the Home Office (pdf) on Thursday, show that black people experienced 12% of use-of-force incidents in 2017-18, despite accounting for just 3.3% of the population, according to the 2011 census.

The next Census in the UK in 2021 might include questions on sexual orientation and gender identity for the first time.

A government paper, which was released yesterday, recommends that new questions be included so that the Office of National Statistics (ONS) can gather accurate data about the LGBT+ community.

‘How did you get into sailing?’ is a question with an often assumed answer.

The recent film dramatisation of Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons, a halcyon day’s tale of adventure under sail, couldn’t have distilled the raw appeal much better to children. It did little, however, to give an impression that it is an accessible sport to any non-sailing parents.

Two reports were commissioned to investigate the state of the UK marine leisure market.

People from minority ethnic backgrounds are set to lose out on medical benefits of genetics research due to an overwhelming bias towards studying white European populations, a leading scientist has warned.

Prof David Curtis, a geneticist and psychiatrist at University College London, has called on funding bodies to do more to address the emerging issue that genetic tests developed using samples from white Europeans can give meaningless results when applied to other ethnic groups. The problem could intensify as the clinical applications of genetics expand over the next decade.

JOB SEEKERS in parts of Leeds are being “locked out” of employment opportunities due to “unreliable and unaffordable” public transport, a study has found.

Glasgow has the 10 most deprived areas in Britain, a new study has found.

Researchers used census data spanning 40 years from 1971 to 2011 and discovered all 10 most deprived places in this period were in Scotland’s largest city.


The Calton area in the city’s east end had three of the most deprived areas, with the North East having two and one each in the census wards of Canal, Baillieston, Springburn, Govan and Drumchapel/Anniesland.

British white people are set to become the minority in “super diverse” Birmingham by 2021, according to a new report.

More than half the city’s 1.2 million-plus population will be from an ethnic minority with 60 per cent of under 18s already coming from a non-white British background.

In a bizarrely worded conclusion the Birmingham City Council community cohesion report, released this week, states: “Birmingham is soon to become a majority minority city.”

The draft plan for the regeneration of Dungiven is ready to be submitted to Causeway Coast and Glens Borough council, the County Derry Post can reveal.

It is understood the document will come before the Leisure and Development Committee of Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council in August.

The plan, seen by the County Derry Post, has been developed over a number of months involving local residents and organisations within the north Derry town, and it charts a list of proposals it is believed can be used to influence statutory bodies and service providers as well as being harnessed as a body of evidence when applying for funding.

Those involved in the local consultation identified several areas as being in need of attention. These are broadly but primarily, roads, parking and traffic management in the town; sports and recreation; positioning and promoting Dungiven, business and enterprise and heritage and culture.

The next Census in the UK in 2021 might include questions on sexual orientation and gender identity for the first time.

A government paper, which was released yesterday, recommends that new questions be included so that the Office of National Statistics (ONS) can gather accurate data about the LGBT+ community.

Sikh groups pushing for a separate ethnic tick box in Britain’s next census are furious after the UK’s independent statistics authority has not recommended it in its white paper.
In the paper published on Friday, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) stated that Sikh would remain an option in the religion question but would not be added to the ethnicity question “because of the evidence that this would not be acceptable to a proportion of the Sikh population.”

People from ethnic minorities are more likely than white people to report a set of negative experiences linked to unconscious bias
The following questions were put to 1,000 black, Asian and minority ethnic people and 1,797 white people. In every case, the minority respondents were much more likely to report the negative experience. Importantly, these results simply reflect whether each group has experienced each scenario, with no explicit mention made as to why they felt they had experienced them, and therefore do not rely on the possibly subjective question of whether people personally attribute the experience to bias. That makes it less likely that the results could simply be the product of a difference in perception.

“You’d think as we go forward things would be getting better, but they’re actually getting worse.” This pointed comment on the state of Britain’s buses came from Janice, a 73-year-old pensioner standing next to me at a windswept bus stop in the Somerset coastal town of Burnham-on-Sea.

Looking for a bus in the English countryside brings to mind the well-known aphorism about waiting for ages before two come along at once. Except, only the first part of this cliché holds true in any reliable sense: you certainly wait for ages, though a significant period of time usually elapses before a second bus arrives.

Unaffordable and unreliable public transport is cutting off the poorest families in the north of England from crucial job opportunities, a study has found.

Researchers from Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), interviewed residents in neighbourhoods across Greater Manchester and Leeds city regions.

WHITE British people are set to become the minority in Birmingham – with nearly 50,000 locals currently unable to speak English.

Britain’s second city – home to residents from almost 200 countries - has been described as “super diverse” by the council.

A report shows that white Britons will soon be a minority in Birmingham. In the West Midland’s largest city, almost 50,000 of the 1.1 million inhabitants cannot speak English. 

Birmingham has a diverse population with nearly 200 different nationalities. According to the new report, it “is soon to become a majority-minority city”.