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53.
Mr. Nicholas Winterton
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services why the proposals to include questions on "ethnic minorities" on the next United Kingdom census have been dropped.
Sir George Young
Because tests and consultations have shown that it is not practicable to devise questions which would give reliable results and at the same time secure the wide measure of acceptability which is needed in a census.