Asked by: Lord Marlesford (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government to give the names and pay grades of each politically appointed senior special adviser to each Minister.
Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
Information on all Special Advisers, including names and pay bands, is published annually in the Annual Report on Special Advisers, as required by the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010.
The latest iteration of the report is scheduled to be published in the Summer.
Asked by: Lord Marlesford (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of those who died with COVID-19 in each of the last 20 weeks had received no vaccination against the disease.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.
Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician
Lord Marlesford
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW
4 November 2021
Dear Lord Marlesford,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what percentage of those who died with COVID-19 in each of the last 20 weeks had received no vaccination against the disease (HL3492).
The data requested is provided, for England, in Table 1, using the most recent data we have available. Information on vaccination status is not included on the death certificate. It is obtained by linkage to the vaccination data from the National immunisation Management Service (NIMS) produced by NHS-E. While the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are responsible for the production of mortality data for England and Wales, we do not hold similar data for Wales. National Records Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for statistics pertaining to Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Please note that the numbers of deaths of unvaccinated persons will depend on the changing number of people who are unvaccinated and the changing characteristics of unvaccinated people, which vary due to the selective vaccination roll-out and differences in uptake.
To compare the risk of death in unvaccinated and fully vaccinated individuals, we advise using the age-standardised mortality rates (ASMRs) for deaths involving COVID-19 for unvaccinated persons and for other vaccination statuses in our publication “Deaths involving COVID-19 by vaccination status, England: deaths occurring between 2 January and 24 September 2021” [1]. These take into account the changing size and age structure of the populations with different vaccination status. This data is for England only and covers approximately 86% of all deaths.These ASMRs show that the risk of death involving COVID-19 is much lower in fully vaccinated than in unvaccinated people.
Please note, other factors such as the health of the people who are unvaccinated may differ from the vaccinated population and change over time, which will affect the age-standardised mortality rates.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Sir Ian Diamond
Asked by: Lord Marlesford (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the first 100,000 people to die as a result of COVID-19 died in (1) England, (2) Scotland, (3) Wales, and (4) Northern Ireland; how many of those died (a) in hospital, (b) in care homes, and (c) elsewhere; and how many of those were (i) over 80 years old, (ii) over 70 years old, (iii) under 50 years old, (iv) BAME, (v) male, and (vi) female.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.
Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician
The Lord Marlesford DL
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW
03 March 2021
Dear Lord Marlesford,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what proportion of the first 100,000 people to die as a result of COVID-19 died in (1) England, (2) Scotland, (3) Wales, and (4) Northern Ireland; how many of those died (a) in hospital, (b) in care homes, and (c) elsewhere; and how many of those were (i) over 80 years old, (ii) over 70 years old, (iii) under 50 years old, (iv) BAME, (v) male, and (vi) female (HL13602).
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes statistics on deaths in England and Wales and produces a weekly report[1] on provisional numbers of deaths involving COVID-19. Mortality statistics are compiled from information supplied when deaths are certified and registered as part of civil registration. National Records for Scotland[2] and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency[3] are responsible for publishing statistics on deaths registered in Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively.
We cannot precisely organise deaths involving COVID-19 into the ‘first 100,000’ at this time. However, we have provided figures for deaths registered up to the end of Week 2 of 2021 (ending 15 January 2021) which is when deaths involving COVID-19 first passed 100,000 in total.
Table 1 below provides the number of deaths involving COVID-19 in the UK, and the proportion of these in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Table 2 provides the number of deaths involving COVID-19 by place of death in each UK country. Table 3 provides the number of deaths involving COVID by age group and sex. Please note that the UK totals in Table 3 are slightly different from Tables 1 and 2, as published data by age group and sex are only available for England and Wales combined (including non-residents) rather than England and Wales as individual countries.
The ONS has published a report on ethnic contrasts in deaths involving COVID-19 in England and Wales[4]. Table 4 shows the number of deaths involving COVID-19 in England and Wales; data have been published for deaths that occurred (rather than were registered) between 2 March 2020 and 28 July 2020. Please note this data includes only deaths that could be linked to the 2011 Census, as this was necessary to obtain ethnic group data. Because the method of calculation is different, the numbers do not relate directly to those in Tables 1 to 3.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Sir Ian Diamond
Table 1: Number and proportion of deaths involving COVID-19, weeks ending 13 March 2020 to 15 January 2021, England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland [5][6][7][8][9]
- | UK | England | Wales | Scotland1 | Northern Ireland |
Number of deaths involving COVID-19 | 104,446 | 88,974 | 5,884 | 7,460 | 2,128 |
% of UK total | 100.0% | 85.2% | 5.6% | 7.1% | 2.0% |
Source: ONS, NRS, and NISRA
Table 2: Number of deaths involving COVID-19, weeks ending 13 March 2020 to 15 January 2021 by place of occurrence, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland [10][11]
Place of death | UK | England | Wales | Scotland1 | Northern Ireland |
All places of death | 104,446 | 88,974 | 5,884 | 7,460 | 2,128 |
Home | 5,256 | 4,376 | 286 | 459 | 135 |
Care home | 26,393 | 21,615 | 1,267 | 2,869 | 642 |
Hospital | 70,793 | 61,101 | 4,247 | 4,116 | 1,329 |
Other | 2,004 | 1,882 | 84 | 16 | 22 |
Source: ONS, NRS and NISRA
Table 3: Number of deaths involving COVID-19, weeks ending 13 March 2020 to 15 January 2021, by broad age group and sex, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
Sex | Age group | UK total6 | England & Wales6 | Scotland | Northern Ireland |
People | All ages | 103,720 | 94,132 | 7,460 | 2,128 |
- | Under 1 year | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
- | 1-14 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
- | 15-44 | 1,004 | 941 | 49 | 14 |
- | 45-64 | 9,615 | 8,777 | 670 | 168 |
- | 65-74 | 15,798 | 14,305 | 1,188 | 305 |
- | 75-84 | 33,855 | 30,647 | 2,478 | 730 |
- | 85+ | 43,436 | 39,451 | 3,074 | 911 |
Males | All ages | 56,596 | 51,693 | 3,831 | 1,072 |
- | Under 1 year | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
- | 1-14 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
- | 15-44 | 587 | 554 | 27 | 6 |
- | 45-64 | 6,188 | 5,656 | 433 | 99 |
- | 65-74 | 10,036 | 9,119 | 729 | 188 |
- | 75-84 | 19,848 | 18,067 | 1,376 | 405 |
- | 85+ | 19,931 | 18,291 | 1,266 | 374 |
Females | All ages | 47,124 | 42,439 | 3,629 | 1,056 |
- | Under 1 year | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
- | 1-14 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
- | 15-44 | 417 | 387 | 22 | 8 |
- | 45-64 | 3,427 | 3,121 | 237 | 69 |
- | 65-74 | 5,762 | 5,186 | 459 | 117 |
- | 75-84 | 14,007 | 12,580 | 1,102 | 325 |
- | 85+ | 23,505 | 21,160 | 1,808 | 537 |
Source: ONS, NRS and NISRA
Table 4: Number of deaths involving COVID-19 by ethnic group and sex, deaths occurring 2 March 2020 to 28 July 2020, England and Wales[12][13]
Ethnic group | Sex | Aged 9 to 64 years | Aged 65 to 110 years |
Bangladeshi | Male | 61 | 112 |
Bangladeshi | Female | 19 | 54 |
Black African | Male | 159 | 188 |
Black African | Female | 85 | 96 |
Black Caribbean | Male | 95 | 514 |
Black Caribbean | Female | 67 | 306 |
Chinese | Male | 16 | 78 |
Chinese | Female | 8 | 55 |
Indian | Male | 180 | 525 |
Indian | Female | 80 | 357 |
Mixed | Male | 29 | 144 |
Mixed | Female | 30 | 99 |
Other | Male | 186 | 351 |
Other | Female | 85 | 226 |
Pakistani | Male | 119 | 286 |
Pakistani | Female | 75 | 156 |
White | Male | 1,939 | 20,531 |
White | Female | 1,184 | 18,201 |
Source: ONS
[1]https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/latest
[2]https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/
[3]https://www.nisra.gov.uk/
[4]https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/updatingethniccontrastsindeathsinvolvingthecoronaviruscovid19englandandwales/deathsoccurring2marchto28july2020
[5] Weeks for Scotland run Monday to Sunday rather than Saturday to Friday, so Week 2 of 2021 is week ending 11th January 2021 rather than week ending 15 January 2021
[6] Figures for individual countries exclude deaths of non-residents. Figures for “England and Wales” totals include non-residents of England and Wales; for this reason, UK totals in Table 3 differ from Tables 1 and 2.
[7] Data in Tables 1, 3 and 3 are based on date a death was registered rather than occurred. Data in Table 4 are based on the date a death occurred, registered up to 24 August 2020. There is a delay between a death occurring and it being registered
[8] All figures for 2020 and 2021 are provisional.
[9] The International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Edition (ICD-10) definitions are as follows: coronavirus (COVID-19) (U07.1 and U07.2). We use the term “involving COVID-19” when referring to deaths that mentioned these ICD-10 codes anywhere on the death certificate, whether as the underlying cause of death or elsewhere.
[10] Deaths at home are those at the usual residence of the deceased (according to the informant)‚ where this is not a communal establishment. Other Communal Establishments include (for example) prisons, student residences, and hotels. Elsewhere includes all places not covered above.
[11] "Other" includes deaths in communal establishments other than hospitals and care homes, in hospices, and that occurred "elsewhere".
[12]Data in Table 4 includes only death records that could be linked to the 2011 Census, to obtain ethnic group data.
[13]The detailed composition of each ethnic group is available to download: https://www.ons.gov.uk/download/table?format=xlsx&uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/updatingethniccontrastsindeathsinvolvingthecoronaviruscovid19englandandwales/deathsoccurring2marchto28july2020/22f0c996.json
Asked by: Lord Marlesford (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord True on 28 May (HL4424), what estimate they have made of the total number of deaths from COVID-19 in the UK in each week since 1 May.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.
Dear Lord Marlesford,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking, further to the Written Answer by Lord True on 28 May (HL4424), about the total number of deaths from COVID-19 in the UK in each week since 1 May (HL7234).
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is responsible for publishing numbers of deaths registered in England and Wales. The most recent annual figures published are for deaths registered in 2019[1]. However, we do publish provisional weekly deaths registrations, which are currently available for deaths registered up to 10 July 2020[2]. National Records Scotland (NRS) and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for publishing the number of deaths registered in Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively.
Cause of death is defined using the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th edition (ICD-10). Deaths involving COVID-19, as either a contributory or underlying cause of death, are identified by the ICD-10 codes U07.1 and U07.2.
The accompanying dataset2 to our provisional weekly deaths bulletin includes UK data on deaths involving COVID-19, which refer to deaths where COVID-19 was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate.
Table 1 shows the provisional number of deaths involving COVID-19 registered each week in the UK from the week ending 8 May up to the week ending 10 July 2020, broken down by country.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Sir Ian Diamond
Table 1: Number of deaths involving COVID-19 registered each week in the UK, week ending 8 May up to the week ending 10 July 2020[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Week number | Week ended | UK | England | Wales | Scotland | Northern Ireland |
19 | 08-May-20 | 4,426 | 3,716 | 211 | 415 | 84 |
20 | 15-May-20 | 4,214 | 3,624 | 180 | 336 | 74 |
21 | 22-May-20 | 2,872 | 2,455 | 134 | 230 | 53 |
22 | 29-May-20 | 2,000 | 1,715 | 105 | 131 | 49 |
23 | 05-Jun-20 | 1,697 | 1,488 | 100 | 89 | 20 |
24 | 12-Jun-20 | 1,204 | 1,057 | 57 | 69 | 21 |
25 | 19-Jun-20 | 849 | 744 | 39 | 49 | 17 |
26 | 26-Jun-20 | 651 | 574 | 30 | 35 | 12 |
27 | 03-Jul-20 | 561 | 497 | 35 | 18 | 11 |
28 | 10-Jul-20 | 388 | 344 | 22 | 13 | 9 |
[3]Cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes U07.1, U07.2
[4]Figures are based on deaths registered up to 1 May 2020
[5]All figures for 2020 are provisional
[6]Weekly deaths for Scotland are produced by NRS: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/covid19stats
[7]Weekly deaths for Northern Ireland are produced by NISRA: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/covid19stats
[8]England, Wales and Northern Ireland weekly deaths run from Saturday to Friday, Scotland deaths run from Monday to Sunday
[9]Northern Ireland week allocation differs from other countries. For example, week 1 is week ending 10-Jan. This has been adjusted for the purpose of aggregating the data
Asked by: Lord Marlesford (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the total number of deaths from COVID-19 in the UK in each week during 2020.
Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.
Dear Lord Marlesford,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what estimate has been made of the total number of deaths from COVID-19 in the UK in each week during 2020 (HL4424).
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is responsible for publishing weekly numbers of deaths registered in England and Wales. The most recent annual figures published are for deaths registered in 2018[1]. However, we do publish provisional weekly deaths registrations, which are currently published for deaths registered up to 1 May 2020[2]. National Records Scotland (NRS) and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for publishing the number of deaths registered in Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively.
Cause of death is defined using the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th edition (ICD-10). Deaths involving COVID-19 either as a contributory or underlying cause of death are identified by the ICD-10 codes U07.1 and U07.2.
Data can refer to deaths where COVID-19 was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate (and may not always be the underlying cause of death), and deaths where COVID-19 was recorded as the underlying cause of death.The accompanying dataset[3] to our provisional weekly deaths bulletin includes UK data on deaths involving COVID-19, which refer to deaths where COVID-19 was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate.
Table 1 shows the provisional number of deaths involving COVID-19 registered each week in the UK up to 1 May 2020, broken down by country.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Sir Ian Diamond
Table 1: Number of deaths involving COVID-19 registered each week in the UK, 28 December 2019 to 1 May 2020[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
Week number | Number of deaths involving COVID-19 | ||||
UK | England | Wales | Scotland | Northern Ireland | |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
11 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
12 | 113 | 100 | 2 | 10 | 1 |
13 | 607 | 515 | 21 | 62 | 9 |
14 | 3,801 | 3,330 | 134 | 282 | 55 |
15 | 6,889 | 5,899 | 304 | 610 | 76 |
16 | 9,495 | 8,335 | 409 | 650 | 101 |
17 | 9,005 | 7,806 | 413 | 658 | 128 |
18 | 6,676 | 5,748 | 281 | 523 | 124 |
Source: Office for National Statistics
[4]Cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes U07.1, U07.2
[5]Figures are based on deaths registered up to 1 May 2020
[6]All figures for 2020 are provisional
[7]Weekly deaths for Scotland are produced by NRS: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/covid19stats
[8]Weekly deaths for Northern Ireland are produced by NISRA: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/covid19stats
[9]England, Wales and Northern Ireland weekly deaths run from Saturday to Friday, Scotland deaths run from Monday to Sunday
[10]Northern Ireland week allocation differs from other countries. For example, week 1 is week ending 10-Jan. This has been adjusted for the purpose of aggregating the data
Asked by: Lord Marlesford (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to ensure that letters from Members addressed to ministers are sent straight to the Minister's Private Office and not to the general correspondence section of Departments.
Answered by Lord Young of Cookham
Letters from members of parliament and peers are given priority over correspondence from the general public. Performance tables are published to show how promptly they reply.
Asked by: Lord Marlesford (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government why, in the October edition of the List of Ministerial Responsibilities, the telephone numbers of private offices of ministers in some government departments are shown as the switchboard number; and whether they will make available to Members of Parliament a list of the telephone numbers of the private offices of all ministers.
Answered by Lord Young of Cookham
The telephone numbers in the List of Ministerial Responsibilities all provide access to the Private Offices. Where main switchboard numbers are provided, these will be updated to Private Office numbers and will be reflected on GOV.UK.
Asked by: Lord Marlesford (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will continue to include figures relating to the Retail Price Index in the monthly press release on UK consumer price inflation issued by the Office for National Statistics.
Answered by Baroness Sugg
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Lord Marlesford (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government when they plan to publish an updated edition of the list of ministerial responsibilities, last updated in October 2016.
Answered by Baroness Sugg
The updated List of Ministerial Responsibilities will be published shortly. In the interim, a summary of Ministers responsibilities can be found on
Gov.uk: https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers.
Asked by: Lord Marlesford (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen on 15 November 2016 (HL2927), when they expect to publish a corrected and updated edition of the List of Ministerial Responsibilities issued by the Cabinet Office in October 2016.
Answered by Lord Young of Cookham
The most recent copy of the List of Ministerial Responsibilities was published in December 2016 on Gov.uk. This document will now be updated and published on a quarterly basis. The update will be published shortly on Gov.uk.