Member

Jews and Sikhs therefore face discrimination, which was further evidenced by the 2017 race disparity audit that found no data on Sikhs in the 340 datasets assessed across Government. In recent years, Jews and Sikhs have been recorded only in religion data. However, that data is rarely collected to a good standard—if at all—it excludes secular and non-practising Jews and Sikhs, and is not used by public bodies to monitor and reduce inequalities or provide public services. How are we meant to tackle discrimination and inequality if Jews and Sikhs are invisible to policymakers? New clause 22, in my name, would therefore make it a statutory requirement for public bodies to collect ethnicity data and ensure that, within that, they collect data on Jews and Sikhs who are currently excluded.