You asked
Please disclose the stillbirth and infant mortality rates for each of the ten years 1967-1976 for both Nottingham and also England & Wales.
We said
Thank you for your recent query regarding stillbirth and infant mortality data.
Information on infant mortality and stillbirths can be obtained from the customer services team of the Vital Statistics Outputs Branch. Special extracts and tabulations of infant mortality and stillbirth 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 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.