Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential impact on NHS ethnicity recording of the Office for National Statistics' findings of higher age-standardised COVID-19 mortality among Sikh and Jewish communities between January 2020 and February 2021.

The Government recognises the impacts highlighted by Lord Mann arising from the failure to record the ethnicities of Jewish and Sikh people in National Health Service data.

We have committed to consult on the inclusion of Jewish and Sikh identities within NHS protected characteristic datasets, and the findings from that consultation will inform our decisions on future implementation.