Petition · past parliament
Ensure accuracy in the 2021 UK census.
Rejected
21 signatures
What the petition asks
Political activist groups are deliberately encouraging their readers to respond with the term "European" to the following question "How would you describe your national identity".
Since Europe isn't a nation & never has been, and such groups are encouraging their readers to deliberately mislead the census for political purposes. We call for the government to strike any such responses from the census results, by marking the response as invalid.
Why it was rejected
It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.
It is up to individuals how to answer questions in the census, and it is the ONS's responsibility to compile a census report based on individual responses.
Timeline
| 2 Mar 2021 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 10 Mar 2021 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
21
Status
Rejected
Rejected
10 Mar 2021
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.