Mortality Rates
(asked on 5th February 2026) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to ensure modelled increases in expected deaths are not used to retroactively redefine excess mortality as normal.
Answered by
Josh Simons
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
This question was answered on 16th February 2026
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Hon lady’s Parliamentary Question of 5th February is attached.