You asked
Can you supply daily (or weekly) mortality data (from 1st October say to give backdrop) for England and Wales broken down thus:
1. Deaths within 1, 7 and 28 days of a Covid vaccine --- subcategorised by:
a. 1st or 2nd dose
b. vaccine manufacturer (at present Oxford/Pfizer)
c. Deaths with/from Covid vs other deaths
2. Total deaths with/from Covid
3. Total deaths
4. 5 year average deaths
For the same period, please supply:
Total vaccinations (by administration date) subcategorised by:
a. 1st/2nd dose
b. vaccine manufacturer
We said
Thank you for your request.
Mortality information:
We are responsible for the production of mortality data for England and Wales. This is driven by information collected on the death certificate at death registration. For Scotland and Northern Ireland data you will need to contact National Records of Scotland and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Centre, respectively.
You can find the number of deaths involving COVID-19 in table 12 of our Monthly Mortality Analysis, these include figures for deaths involving adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccination. There are currently 0 deaths registered with the aligning ICD codes for this. However, should this change, they will be updated in this table.
We are currently developing our analytical plans with an intention to publish detailed vaccination statistics soon. This will include deaths from COVID-19 where the deceased has received a vaccine. Once we have finalised these plans a publication date will be announced on our Release Calendar.
Our Deaths Registered Weekly dataset provides the number of deaths occurring weekly from COVID-19, deaths occurring weekly from all causes, and the corresponding 5-year average. Please refer to the 'Weekly deaths' tab in the most recent publication for this data. Data for 2020 can be found in the 2020 dataset.
If you would like to discuss the mortality part of your query further, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.
Vaccine information:
The data we hold regarding vaccination offers and uptake is currently published in Table 12 of our weekly OPN publication, with links to the relevant releases via the following link: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandwellbeing/datasets/coronavirusandthesocialimpactsongreatbritaindata
Please note, we only started capturing data in late December/early January on vaccine uptake.
A range of further vaccine analysis will be published in due course.
As such, further vaccine analysis is considered exempt under Section 22(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, whereby information is exempt from release if there is a view to publish the information in the future. Furthermore, as a central government department and producer of official statistics, we need to have the freedom to be able to determine our own publication timetables. This is to allow us to deal with the necessary preparation, administration and context of publications. It would be unreasonable to consider disclosure when to do so would undermine our functions.
This exemption is subject to a public interest test. We recognise the desirability of information being freely available and this is considered by ONS when publication schedules are set in accordance with the Code of Practice for Statistics. The need for timely data must be balanced against the practicalities of applying statistical skill and judgement to produce the high quality, assured data needed to inform decision-making. If this balance is incorrectly applied, then we run the risk of decisions being based on inaccurate data which is arguably not in the public interest. This will have an impact on public trust in official statistics in a time when accuracy of official statistics is more important to the public than ever before.
Public Health England (PHE) and Public Health Wales would also be able to help with any vaccine related queries. Please see their website for more details: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations?areaType=nation&areaName=England. They can also be contacted via email at wn_coronavirus@phe.gov.uk.