You asked
Could you please supply the number of deaths related to drug poisoning where Paracetamol, Tramadol, Co-codamol, Dihydrocodeine or Co-Proxamol was mentioned on the death certificates in England and Wales for deaths registered between 2006 and 2007 and for 2013 and 2014.
We said
Thank you for your query regarding drug related deaths data.
Detailed reference tables providing figures on the number of drug related deaths mentioning specific substances are available as part of the Deaths related to drug poisoning bulletin: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/subnational-health3/deaths-related-to-drug-poisoning/england-and-wales---2014/index.html
If these tables do not met you requirements 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). Such enquiries should be made to: mortality@ons.gov.uk. We recommend that you contact the Mortality Analysis team directly in order to discuss your data requirements in more detail.
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.