You asked
In 2012 you provided an answer to a Parliamentary question regarding births data. Could you provide me with similar, comparable tables for the 2012 calendar year and if possible the 2013 calendar year if they are available?
We said
Thank you for your recent query regarding births data.
Information on births can be obtained from the customer services team of the Vital Statistics Outputs Branch. Special extracts and tabulations of births data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to:
Vital Statistics Outputs Branch
Office for National Statistics
Segensworth Road
Titchfield
Fareham
Hampshire
PO15 5RR
Tel: +44 (0)1329 444 110
E-mail: vsob@ons.gov.uk
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.