FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3292
You asked
Please supply deaths for influenza in 2021.
We said
Thank you for your request for influenza deaths in 2021.
You can find provisional numbers of deaths for influenza and pneumonia combined for 2021 in the weekly deaths publication in the 'weekly figures by cause' table. Please see rows 15 and 16.
Unfortunately, we do not hold analysis on deaths that were registered in 2021 yet. However, we can produce this for you as a bespoke request. 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).
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.
Such enquiries would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and should be made to: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.