You asked
Can you provide national place of death data for time period 1st January 2015 to 30th June 2020?
Can you also provide national place of death data for patients with COVID-19 (recorded on death certificate) for the period 1st January 2020 to 30th June 2020?
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
Thank you for your enquiry. We are responsible for mortality statistics for England and Wales. National Records Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for statistics pertaining to Scotland and Northern Ireland. They can be contacted at foi@nrscotland.gov.uk and info@nisra.gov.uk respectively.
Please find the answers to your questions below:
1. Can you provide national place of death data for time period 1st January 2015 to 30th June 2020?
Unfortunately, we would be unable to provide you with a monthly breakdown of death data by place of occurrence for the last five years. In order to fulfil this request, we would need use a high level of statistical skill and judgement in order to create bespoke analysis for you. 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, the following publication, Deaths registered monthly in England and Wales, provides the number of deaths registered each month by area of usual residence for England and Wales, by region, county, local and unitary authority, and London borough.
Data from 2015 to 2019 is also available as a 5-year average in our Five-year average weekly deaths by place of death, England and Wales, deaths occurring between 2015 and 2019.
If this does not meet your needs, we may be able to create a bespoke output for you. Information on deaths registered by place of occurrence, along with other special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to commission. Please note, these will be subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate. If you would like to discuss the provision of a bespoke dataset, please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.
2. Can you also provide national place of death data for patients with COVID-19 (recorded on death certificate) for the period 1st January 2020 to 30th June 2020?
The place of death for COVID-19 and non COVID-19 related deaths occurring in 2020 are available via the following link: Death registrations and occurrences by local authority and health board. Please note, we have interpreted your request for "national place of death" as the place where each death occurred, that is private home, care home, hospital, etc.