You asked
I would like to make a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.
Please can you tell me how many children were recorded to have died in the year 2015-16.
How many of these children have a hyphen in their first name?
Can you please tell me the 10 most recurring Christian/first names in children's death records that contain a hyphen.
Please conduct the search nationally, and also separately for the county of Nottinghamshire, or if this is not viable, within the area of the Mansfield and Ashfield CCG.
We said
Thank you for your query regarding child mortality statistics.
You can find the number of deaths of children in England and Wales by single year of age using this link: www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathregistrationssummarytablesenglandandwalesreferencetables/2015/syoacause2015.xls
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 ONS considers 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.