You asked

​Please can you provide a weekly time series for England and England & Wales that show Pneumonia & Influenza mentions between Oct 2014 through to end December 2019, accompanied with the 5 year average data per week.

We said

​Thank you for your request.

Please see the download below Figure 2 of the following publication: Provisional weekly deaths in England and Wales.  This provides a weekly breakdown of deaths due to and involving influenza and pneumonia in 2020. Row D of this spreadsheet provides part of your request, as it shows the weekly five-year average for deaths involving influenza and pneumonia.

You may also find the following user requested bespoke analysis, showing annual deaths involving influenza from 2001 to 2016 useful: Number of deaths where influenza was the underlying cause of death or was mentioned on the death certificate, by five-year age group, England and Wales, 2001 to 2016.

Further analysis breaking down influenza and pneumonia deaths by week from October 2014 to December 2019 would need to be created as bespoke analysis. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Public Authorities are not obligated to create information in order to respond to requests. We therefore consider this to be information not held. However, you may be able to commission this information as bespoke analysis. Such services would be subject to legal frameworks, disclosure controls, resources and agreement of costs. If you would like to request this bespoke dataset, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk to discuss your enquiry further. Please note, there may be a charge for this work which would be subject to our charging policy.