Asked by: Esther McVey (Conservative - Tatton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2026 to Question 19336 on Death: Statistics, what estimate the Office for National Statistics has made of the average and maximum revisions to provisional daily numbers of deaths by date of occurrence after (a) 7, (b) 14, (c) 21, (d) 28 and (e) 56 days.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson - Exchequer Secretary (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with HM Treasury)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Asked by: Esther McVey (Conservative - Tatton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2026 to Question 19336 on Death: Statistics, what proportion of deaths occurring on a given date in England and Wales are, on average, registered within (a) 1 day, (b) 3 days, (c) 7 days, (d) 14 days, (e) 21 days and (f) 28 days of the date of death.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson - Exchequer Secretary (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with HM Treasury)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Asked by: Esther McVey (Conservative - Tatton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Office for National Statistics has assessed the feasibility of publishing deaths by individual date of occurrence subject to a fixed publication lag of (a) 14, (b) 21 and (c) 28 days.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson - Exchequer Secretary (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with HM Treasury)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Asked by: Esther McVey (Conservative - Tatton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2026 to Question 19336 on Death: Statistics, whether any statistical criteria prevent publication of death-registration figures by individual date.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson - Exchequer Secretary (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with HM Treasury)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Asked by: Esther McVey (Conservative - Tatton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2026 to Question 19336 on Death: Statistics, what proportion of deaths occurring on a given date would ordinarily have been registered 12 days after that date.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson - Exchequer Secretary (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with HM Treasury)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Asked by: Esther McVey (Conservative - Tatton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2026 to Question 19336 on Death: Statistics, whether the ONS will make daily counts by (a) date of death and (b) date of registration available as a downloadable dataset.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson - Exchequer Secretary (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with HM Treasury)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Asked by: Esther McVey (Conservative - Tatton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment the Office for National Statistics has made of whether the risk of misinterpretation of daily mortality figures could be mitigated through (a) provisional-data labelling, (b) publication of completeness estimates, (c) revision indicators, (d) seven-day rolling averages and (e) delaying publication of the most recent observations.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson - Exchequer Secretary (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with HM Treasury)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Asked by: Esther McVey (Conservative - Tatton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Office for National Statistics will publish historical daily numbers of deaths in England and Wales by (a) date of occurrence and (b) date of registration for periods sufficiently historic that registration delay is no longer a material source of incompleteness.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson - Exchequer Secretary (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with HM Treasury)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Asked by: Esther McVey (Conservative - Tatton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2026 to Question 19336 on Death: Statistics, what quantitative analysis supports the Office for National Statistics' conclusion that publication of daily death figures could increase the risk of misinterpretation and misleading conclusions.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson - Exchequer Secretary (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with HM Treasury)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Asked by: Esther McVey (Conservative - Tatton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what statistical criteria the Office for National Statistics uses to determine that weekly, rather than daily, publication represents the appropriate level of granularity for mortality statistics; and whether those criteria have been published.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson - Exchequer Secretary (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with HM Treasury)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.