You asked
Please could I obtain the death rates due to diabetes related causes within the UK during 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.
We said
Thank you for your query on deaths related to diabetes.
The number of deaths registered in England and Wales each year by sex, age and underlying cause are available from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Mortality Statistics: Deaths Registered in England and Wales (Series DR) release. This is available on the ONS website: http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredinenglandandwalesseriesdr/previousReleases
Special extracts and tabulations of mortality data, including the calculation of mortality rates for specific causes, are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to: mortality@ons.gov.uk. We recommend that you contact the Mortality Analysis team directly in order to discuss your data requirements in more detail.
As this information is already available to you via this route ONS considers that S21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.