Member

The same goes for Jews, who are often missing from data that the NHS collects, as acknowledged in a report from the NHS Race and Health Observatory published in December. British Jews also died from covid at almost twice the rate of the rest of the population, and certain genetic conditions also have a higher prevalence among Jewish people, such as breast cancer in Ashkenazi Jewish women. The new clause would take forward one of the Race and Health Observatory’s key recommendations, to mandate the inclusion of Jewish as an option for ethnicity, allowing us to collect essential data for tracking health outcomes. It is of course right that we do the same for the Sikh community. Will the Minister commit to accepting these new clauses, given the significance of the arguments in their favour?