You asked
We request data held by the ONS on daily totals of deaths occurring or registered in the UK (or for England and Wales), from all causes, for the period 01.01.2020 to today.
We do not require a breakdown by cause of death, age of deceased or geographical area.
We refer to the ONS publication "Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional" published at https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/weeklyprovisionalfiguresondeathsregisteredinenglandandwales. and specifically to the worksheets "Covid-19 - E&W comparisons" and "Covid-19 - England comparisons".
We request a disaggregation of these data in these two worksheets, for the period 01.01.2020 to today, by the following causes of death as per the ICD-10:
U07.1 COVID-19, virus identified (assigned to a disease diagnosis of COVID-19 confirmed by laboratory testing.)
U07.2 COVID-19, virus not identified (assigned to a clinical or epidemiological diagnosis of COVID-19 where laboratory confirmation is inconclusive or not available).
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. Please refer to the websites for Scotland and Northern Ireland for their death data.
The information you have requested is available to commission as a bespoke analysis. Such services would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and would be subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreement of costs where appropriate.
If this is something you would be interested in, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk so that we may discuss your enquiry further. There would be a charge for this work which would be subject to our charging policy.