FOI Reference: FOI/2021/3020

You asked

I wish to know the number of deaths in UK care homes between March and April 2021.

We said

Thank you for your request.

We are responsible for the provision of mortality statistics for England and Wales. National Records Scotland (NRS) and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for statistics pertaining to Scotland and Northern Ireland. Therefore, we do not hold the requested data for the whole of the UK. Should you wish to obtain this data from NRS and NISRA, they can be contacted at foi@nrscotland.gov.uk and info@nisra.gov.uk respectively.

However, for the requested information for England and Wales, pease refer to Table 14a and Table 14b in the following bulletin: Monthly mortality analysis, England and Wales. We have also extracted this information and put it into the following table, which we hope will be helpful:

For further information on this data set please feel free to contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.