Member

I welcome the Minister’s mission to update Government for the modern digital age. Any responsible Government must use data to build an accurate picture of who they are serving. It is because I recognise the incredible power of data that I tabled my probing new clauses on the need to record ethnicity data for Sikhs and Jews. If some communities are invisible to public bodies, how can we expect them to be served equally? I tabled these new clauses to put right a wrong. The ethnicity data that public bodies collect is often patchy and incomplete, and for Sikhs and Jews specifically data is not collected at all.