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Jews and Sikhs have been legally recognised as ethnic groups for over 40 years, since the Mandla v. Dowell Lee case in 1983. That was reaffirmed in the Equality Act 2010, where they are considered as both religious and ethnic groups. As those are protected characteristics, we would expect public bodies to be instructed to collect information on Jews and Sikhs routinely—especially when public bodies use ethnic categories only to deliver public services—but they are not. That is why this really matters.