You asked
Please provide the information for mortality from sepsis as a result of antimicrobial resistance. If possible, please provide annual statistics for the last ten years.
We said
Thank you for your query regarding mortality statistics. You asked us to provide statistics for deaths registered as a result of sepsis for the years 2007 to 2012.
Information on mortality statistics by cause of death can be obtained from the Mortality Analysis team. Special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales, including the calculation of mortality rates for specific causes, are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to: mortality@ons.gov.uk. We recommend that you contact the Mortality Analysis team directly in order to discuss your data requirements in more detail.
As this information is already available to you via this route, we consider that s.21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S.21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.