You asked

Can you explain why these figures below are not available for 2018 to 2019?

Excess winter mortality for Pneumonia, England and Wales, 2017 to 2018 (provisional)

You seem to be able to produce stats for COVID-19, but are suppressing figures as above for the year 2018-19.

We said

Thank you for your enquiry

Excess winter mortality figures for 2018 – 2019 can be found on our website

Excess Winter Mortality 2018 to 2019 provisional and 2017 to 2018 final

The next release is scheduled for November 2020.

The data Excess winter mortality for Pneumonia, England and Wales, 2017 to 2018 (provisional) you have linked to is a customer request which has been released under the ONS Open Data Policy.

We can update this custom output for you. This will be subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs (where appropriate). Such enquiries would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and should be made to: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.