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.

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.