Anglian Water chemical content and Covid-19 vaccinations

FOI Ref: FOI/2022/4166

You asked

1) Could you share the following information with regards to my household water supply with Anglian Water please?

• Full list of chemicals used in the water treatment process by Anglian Water

• Percentage of each of the chemicals used by Anglian Water

• Concise list of any PPE that is used by Anglian Water personnel working with these chemicals

• COSHH data for each of the chemicals used by Anglian Water

2) Could you also share the total number of people in the UK who have not received the Covid-19 vaccination

3) Total number of Covid 19 vaccine related injuries

We said

Thank you for your request.

Unfortunately, we do not hold data in relation to your Anglian Water supply query. Your request would be better placed with Anglian Water themselves. Please visit the following webpage for more information and for their contact details: Anglian Water: Environmental Information Requests.

Regarding your second query, you can find official estimates on the proportion of the population who have received a first, second and third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine on the Government coronavirus (COVID-19) dashboard, along with the total number of vaccines given. Population estimates for the United Kingdom can be found under the heading latest reported vaccination uptake in the 4th chart down the page. If you are interested in the estimates of vaccine uptake for each nation or region in the UK, click Vaccinations in United Kingdom in the top-left banner, you can then select the area type and area name as required. Please note, once the dashboard is adjusted for each nation or region the "latest reported vaccination uptake" chart displays as the 2nd chart down the page.  

More information on official government vaccination estimates can be found in UKHSA's COVID-19 weekly announced vaccinations reports. To accurately calculate a proportion of nation that are unvaccinated, data regarding the size of the population is required. As it is not possible to know exactly how many people are in the United Kingdom, population estimates (denominators) are used. Because of this, it is difficult to identify exactly how many people in the population are unvaccinated. Please find more about the denominators used under the data notes section of the same link. For further information, you can contact the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA, previously Public Health England) via email at informationrights@ukhsa.gov.uk.  

The Office for National Statistics COVID-19 Infection Survey (CIS) is a household survey that estimates the number of people testing positive for infection and for antibodies in the UK. Our statistics refer to the number of current COVID-19 infections within the population living in private residential households. We exclude those in hospitals, care homes and/or other communal establishments. In communal establishments, rates of COVID-19 infection are likely to be different. We do not hold analyses on the proportion of people who are unvaccinated in the United Kingdom.

However, you might be interested in our modelled estimates of the proportion of adults who have received one or more vaccination doses in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland we previously produced. The last publication containing the estimates was our Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey, antibody and vaccination data, UK: 8 December 2021 bulletin. In tabs 1e, 2d, 3d and 4d of the dataset you can find vaccination estimates for England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, respectively. These estimates are based on the percentages of participants vaccinated in our Covid Infection Survey and do not replace the official government figures from UKHSA on vaccinations. Please note, caution should be taken when interpreting these results as we did not attempt to estimate the proportion of participants who were unvaccinated.

Further information and an overview of data about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and other sources can be found in the Coronavirus (COVID-19) latest insights tool.

Regarding your third query, we do not hold data related to vaccine injuries.

We do, however, hold data on the number of deaths due to and involving the COVID-19 vaccine. Our data is derived from the death certificate, using information received at the point of death registration.  For the vaccine to be mentioned on the death certificate the medical professional certifying the death must have believed, to the best of their knowledge, that the vaccine was part of the events that led to the death. Deaths reported as due to or involving the COVID-19 vaccination are recorded using ICD-10 code U12.9.

The following publication provides the information requested for England and Wales and is updated on a monthly basis: Monthly mortality analysis, England and Wales.

Data for May will be published on 22 June 2022.

You may also be interested in information regarding the difference in our (ONS) data and the Yellow Card scheme data, which can be found in the following blog post: How many people have died as a result of a COVID-19 vaccine? | National Statistical (ons.gov.uk)

For information on adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccination not resulting in death, please contact the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency on info@mhra.gov.uk or by telephone on 020 3080 6000.

If you have any further enquiries, please contact Health.data@ons.gov.uk.