FOI/2021/2765
You asked
Please supply the number of deaths due to COVID-19, recorded in England & Wales since 1 March 2020, split by age group and sub split by those who had a pre-existing medical condition versus those who did not have.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
Numbers and percentages of deaths where COVID-19 was recorded as the sole condition on the death certificate and COVID-19 deaths by main pre-existing condition, for England and Wales, are available in our Monthly mortality analysis, England and Wales publication. The dataset containing this information can be found here. This publication contains data up to July 2021 and will be updated to include figures for August in September 2021. Earlier versions of this publication, covering March to June 2020, are available here.
We have also published a dataset covering the whole of 2020, based on finalised death registration data, this is available here.
This data is available for the broad age groups 0-64 and 65 and over. We are required to protect confidentiality in death statistics and are therefore unable to disclose a further breakdown of this data for smaller age groups, owing to the potential disclosure risk, particularly in the younger age groups. Section 39 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (SRSA) renders it an offence to disclose information held by the Statistics Board for statistical purposes that would identify an individual or a body corporate. As we are prohibited by law from publishing statistics in which individual businesses or persons can be identified, we find that Section 44 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies. Section 44 is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied. More information can be found in our disclosure control policy.
If you have any further enquiries about this information, please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.