Asked by: Lord West of Spithead (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the total number of COVID-19 deaths in England since 1 July; and how many of those deaths were people who were either (1) unvaccinated, or (2) had underlying health conditions.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.
Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician
Lord West of Spithead
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW
27 October 2021
Dear Lord West of Spithead,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking the total number of COVID-19 deaths in England since 1 July; and how many of those deaths were people who were either (1) unvaccinated, or (2) had underlying health conditions (HL3191).
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes mortality statistics for England and Wales compiled from information supplied when deaths are certified and registered as part of civil registration. Based on the latest data in the bulletin ‘Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: 15 October 2021’1, there were 7,673 deaths involving COVID-19 registered between 1 July 2021 and 8 October 2021 in England.
Information provided at death registration can be used to identify the presence of pre-existing health conditions. The data are published quarterly in the ‘Pre-existing conditions of people who died due to COVID-19, England and Wales’ dataset2. These are currently available until the end of June 2021. In the second quarter of 2021 (April to June), 18.8% of people who died due to COVID-19 in England and Wales had no pre-existing condition. The data for the third quarter (July to September) will be published on 23 November 2021.
The vaccination status of the deceased is not recorded at death registration unless the certifying doctor or coroner considered it to be relevant to the cause of death. To produce statistics on deaths by COVID-19 vaccination status the ONS has created a linked dataset which includes death registrations, vaccination data from the National Immunisation Management System (NIMS) and Test and Trace data on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test results. The methods are described in ‘Deaths involving COVID-19 by vaccination status, England: deaths occurring between 2 January and 2 July 2021’3. Unfortunately, this publication only covered deaths that occurred up to 2 July 2021. However, an update of this publication, covering deaths that occurred up to 24 September 2021, will be published on 1 November. Of the 51,281 deaths involving Covid-19 that occurred between 2 January and 2 July 2021, 38,964 (76.0%) occurred in unvaccinated individuals. Please note, however, that this proportion is likely to change in the most recent period, as an increasing number of people are now vaccinated.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Sir Ian Diamond
1 Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: 15 October 2021
2 Pre-existing conditions of people who died due to COVID-19, England and Wales
Asked by: Hilary Benn (Labour - Leeds Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will ask registrars to prioritise appointments for the parents of babies who were stillborn so that they can register both the birth and death of their baby at the same appointment, prior to organising a funeral.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Still-birth registration appointments are prioritised alongside death registrations. Provisions within the Coronavirus Act 2020 allow these events to be registered by telephone at present.
Only one registration appointment is required, with details solely recorded in the still-birth register.
Asked by: Christopher Chope (Conservative - Christchurch)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2021 to question 28938, Coronavirus: Vaccination, in what format is data available on the number of deaths reported of people who have died following a covid-19 vaccination.
Answered by Maggie Throup
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) publishes a weekly report of the number of suspected adverse drug reaction reports for each of the COVID-19 vaccines used in the United Kingdom, where the patient died shortly after vaccination. The weekly reports are available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions
The UK Health Security Agency publishes data on COVID-19 deaths by vaccination status and by age group in the COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report, which is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccine-surveillance-report
This data shows deaths within 28 days of positive specimen, deaths within 60 days of a positive specimen or with COVID-19 reported on the death certificate.
Asked by: Lord Blencathra (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of how many of the people who (1) have contracted COVID-19 after being admitted to hospital, and (2) died from COVID-19 contracted after admission to hospital, were infected by non-vaccinated NHS staff.
Answered by Lord Kamall
Public Health England’s findings show up to one in six infections among hospitalised patients with COVID-19 in England during the first six months of the pandemic could be attributed to hospital-acquired infection. This represents less than 1% of the estimated three million COVID-19 cases during this period.
Of the patients with hospital-onset COVID-19 that was probably or definitely hospital-acquired, 41.3% died within 28-days of contracting COVID-19.
PHE does not collect data on the number of people who were infected with COVID-19 by non-vaccinated National Health Service staff and subsequently died, as this information is unavailable.
Asked by: Sarah Atherton (Conservative - Wrexham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of splitting the reported data on covid-19 deaths within 28 days of a positive test by people who are (a) fully vaccinated, (b) single vaccinated and (c) not vaccinated.
Answered by Maggie Throup
Public Health England assessed that it would be in the public interest to publish data on COVID-19 deaths within 28 days of a positive test by vaccination status. This data is published in the weekly vaccine surveillance report, which is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccine-surveillance-report
Asked by: Charles Walker (Conservative - Broxbourne)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many deaths recorded within 28 days of positive covid-19 test occurred on each day from (a) 1 August 2020 to 13 September 2020 and (b) on the corresponding days in 2021.
Answered by Maggie Throup
The information requested is shown in the following table.
Date of Death | 2020 | 2021 |
1 August | 9 | 73 |
2 August | 8 | 65 |
3 August | 14 | 66 |
4 August | 10 | 70 |
5 August | 3 | 85 |
6 August | 9 | 79 |
7 August | 7 | 85 |
8 August | 11 | 65 |
9 August | 8 | 68 |
10 August | 11 | 68 |
11 August | 10 | 79 |
12 August | 6 | 91 |
13 August | 7 | 86 |
14 August | 6 | 79 |
15 August | 11 | 70 |
16 August | 4 | 69 |
17 August | 12 | 93 |
18 August | 7 | 78 |
19 August | 2 | 91 |
20 August | 8 | 101 |
21 August | 7 | 87 |
22 August | 6 | 102 |
23 August | 13 | 94 |
24 August | 5 | 102 |
25 August | 11 | 86 |
26 August | 11 | 102 |
27 August | 8 | 104 |
28 August | 8 | 99 |
29 August | 5 | 103 |
30 August | 6 | 88 |
31 August | 7 | 92 |
1 September | 2 | 92 |
2 September | 8 | 100 |
3 September | 6 | 118 |
4 September | 6 | 107 |
5 September | 12 | 106 |
6 September | 8 | 113 |
7 September | 13 | 107 |
8 September | 9 | 96 |
9 September | 9 | 107* |
10 September | 12 | 74* |
11 September | 10 | 55* |
12 September | 18 | 56* |
13 September | 14 | 13* |
Source: UK Coronavirus Dashboard - Number of deaths of people who had had a positive test result for COVID-19 and died within 28 days of the first positive test. Data extracted 14 September 2021. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths?areaType=nation%26areaName=England#card-deaths_within_28_days_of_positive_test_by_date_of_death
Note:
*As the above data is based on date of death, data for the most recent days are subject to reporting delay as death reports can take several days to be submitted to Public Health England following the death of a person.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the (a) age, (b) underlying medical conditions and (c) actual cause of death of each person recorded as having died in the last 14 days with or from covid-19.
Answered by Chloe Smith
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.
Asked by: Steve Baker (Conservative - Wycombe)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the number of daily non-covid-19 deaths for as long as he publishes the number of daily deaths from covid-19 in England.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
While Public Health England publishes the number of daily deaths following a positive test for COVID-19, monthly mortality analysis and data on daily deaths is published by the Office for National Statistics.
Asked by: Steve Baker (Conservative - Wycombe)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's most recent estimate is of the covid-19 infection fatality rate.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
As of 15 July, Public Health England’s modelling group, with the MRC Biostats Unit, estimated that overall infection mortality rate is approximately 0.096%.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS staff have died from covid-19 since March 2020.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Data published by the Office for National Statistics’ shows that between 9 March 2020 and 7 May 2021, there were 639 registered deaths involving COVID-19 among healthcare workers and 922 deaths among social care workers in England aged 20 to 64 years old, using last known occupation. The definition of healthcare workers includes both those employed in the National Health Service and wider healthcare sector workers.