You asked
Please provide figures for deaths in sporting incidents in the UK as a whole over the last 10 years.
We said
Thank you for your request.
You have made a Freedom of Information Request asking for deaths from sporting incidents in the UK for the last 10 years.
Information on deaths from sporting incidents for England and Wales can be obtained from the Mortality Analysis team. Special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales 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.