You asked
I should be grateful if you would release the 1970-1979 perinatal and infant mortality rates for each Area Health Authority.
We said
Thank you for your recent query regarding infant mortality data.
Information on infant mortality can be obtained from the customer services team of the Vital Statistics Outputs Branch. Special extracts and tabulations of infant 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:
Vital Statistics Outputs Branch
Office for National Statistics
Segensworth Road
Titchfield
Fareham
Hampshire
PO15 5RR
Tel: +44 (0)1329 444 110
E-mail: vsob@ons.gov.uk
As this information is already available to you via this route ONS considers that S21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.