You asked
Please provide death figures for the UK for the months of April in 2018, 2019 and 2020 broken down daily.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
We are responsible for publishing deaths registered in England and Wales. National Records Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for publishing the number of deaths registered in Scotland and Northern Ireland. They can be contacted at foi@nrscotland.gov.uk and info@nisra.gov.uk respectively.
The following publication, Daily deaths England and Wales 2015 - 2018, provides the number of death occurrences from all causes by day, month and year of occurrence, by 5-year age group, for England and Wales, from 2015 to 2018.
Unfortunately, we would be unable to provide you with daily death data for 2019 and 2020. In order to fulfil this part of the request, we would need use a high level of statistical skill and judgement in order to create a bespoke dataset. 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, we can provide the following datasets:
Quarterly mortality report, England: April to June 2019: This provides provisional death registration and death occurrence data for England, broken down by sex and age. Figure 4 of this dataset provides the number of death occurrences in England in April 2019.
Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: This provides provisional counts of the number of deaths registered in England and Wales, by age, sex and region, in the latest weeks for which data are available. This includes the most up-to-date figures available for deaths involving the coronavirus (COVID-19).
This dataset allows you to see the number of provisional weekly deaths for England and Wales from the beginning of 2020, and each week of 2019 for comparison. However, these numbers are for death registrations as opposed to occurrences and are weekly rather than daily.