You asked
​Please would you provide the information ONS has received from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in relation to deaths in care homes notified to the CQC under regulation 16 of the Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 2009. All such data received by ONS from 1 March 2020 until present is requested.
The information sought includes all data received by ONS in relation to the content of death notification forms, including all available details of the information entered into the various fields on CQC's death notification forms. In particular, I am interested in entries made as to whether a deceased had a disability and whether this disability was physical, learning and/or sensory.
We said
Thank you for your request.
We are responsible for publishing mortality statistics for deaths registered in England and Wales, using the information supplied on the death certificate.
All information we receive from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in England we have made publicly available on our website:
Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales: This provides CQC data relating to deaths in care homes available on a weekly basis in the corresponding dataset.
Deaths involving COVID-19 in the care sector, England and Wales: This provides CQC data relating to deaths to care home residents and those receiving home care in the corresponding dataset.
We do not receive any information from CQC regarding the content of death notification forms or disability status. We are therefore unable to provide this information.