You asked
Please could you provide me with tables showing the number of deaths recorded in (a) hospitals and (b) care homes where (i) malnutrition or “effects of hunger”, (ii) dehydration and (iii) pressure sores/ulcers were mentioned anywhere on the death certificate in each Government office region for each of the years from 2011 onwards.
We said
Thank you for your query regarding deaths data.
Special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales 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.