Excess deaths

Release date:
20 May 2016

You asked

Please provide all emails sent or received by anyone at the UK Statistics Authority regarding Jeremy Hunt's use of a '6000 excess deaths' figure in a speech in July 2015.

You do not need to search for emails sent or received before 1 June 2015 or after 1 Nov 2015.

We said

Thank you for your request. Please find attached all emails sent or received by colleagues at the UK Statistics Authority regarding Jeremy Hunt's use of a '6000 excess deaths' figure in a speech in July 2015. Some information within the emails has been withheld from disclosure as personal information under s.40 of the Freedom of Information Act.

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