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1. mailto:[ONS request email]
2. mailto:[ONS request email]
3. http://ons.gov.uk/coronavirus

Our Reference: FOI/2022/3777

Dear Tyrone,

Thank you for your request.

I am writing to confirm that the Office for National Statistics has now
completed its search for the information which you requested and the
response can be found here:

You asked:

​FOI Reference: FOI/2022/3777

Please provide me with the total figures from March 2020 to 20 Jan 2022
for UK deaths recorded as 'caused by Covid alone' without any other
underlying conditions?

Our response:

​Thank you for your enquiry.

We are responsible for the provision of mortality statistics for England
and Wales. [1]National Records Scotland (NRS) and the [2]Northern Ireland
Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for statistics
pertaining to Scotland and Northern Ireland. Therefore, we do not hold the
requested data for the whole of the UK. Should you wish to obtain this
data from NRS and NISRA, they can be contacted
at [3][email address] and [4][email address] respectively.

England and Wales

Health conditions are recorded on the death certificate only if the
certifying doctor or coroner believed they made some contribution to the
death, direct or indirect. The death certificate does not include all
health conditions from which the deceased might have suffered if they were
not considered relevant.

The death certificate ([5]Annex A (PDF, 224KB)) used in England and Wales
is compatible with that recommended by WHO. It is set out in two parts.
Part I gives the condition or sequence of conditions leading directly to
death, while Part II gives details of any associated conditions that
contributed to the death but are not part of the causal sequence.

We recommend using our pre-existing conditions methodology to answer this
question as it removes any conditions caused by the underlying cause of
death.

Please see the following previously answered FOI which will answer your
enquiry for England and Wales: [6]Deaths due to COVID-19 in the UK with no
pre-existing conditions by age from March 2020 to January 2022 - Office
for National Statistics

If this does not meet your needs, we can create a custom output. 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 [7]costs, where appropriate).  

Such enquiries would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and
should be made to: [8][email address].

You have the right to have this response to your Freedom of Information
request reviewed internally by an internal review process and, if you
remain unhappy with the decision, by the Information Commissioner. If you
would like to have the decision reviewed please email the Freedom of
Information Team at ‘[ONS request email]’ or write to The FoI Team, Room
1100, Office for National Statistics, Segensworth Road, Titchfield PO15
5RR, and mark your correspondence "Internal Review".

If you have any queries about this email, please contact the Freedom of
Information Team ('[ONS request email]').

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

The Freedom of Information Team

Office for National Statistics

For information on Coronavirus, please visit [9]ONS.gov.uk/coronavirus

References

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2. https://www.nisra.gov.uk/
3. mailto:[email address]
4. mailto:[email address]
5. https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peoplep...
6. https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transpare...
7. https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/whatwedo/...
8. mailto:[email address]
9. http://ons.gov.uk/coronavirus

Dear Tyrone,

Thank you for your email.

To follow up on our response to this request, we have noted that you have
put in a request for internal review prior to receiving our response,
which was sent within the statutory 20 working day limit. As this request
was made before you received your response, we will not be processing
this.

If you have any queries regarding our response to your request, please get
back in touch.

Kind regards,

The Freedom of Information Team | UK Statistics Authority | Awdurdod
Ystadegau’r Deyrnas Unedig

@UKStatsAuth | [1][email address] |
[2]http://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk

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