Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 112219
Health Services: Statistics
Tabled: 10 February 2026
Answered: 20 February 2026
Question
Carla Lockhart
Democratic Unionist Party — Upper Bann
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will have discussions with the Office for National Statistics on revising its back baseline to reflect pre-2020 trends.
Answer
Karin SmythAnalysts from the Department of Health and Social Care are having regular discussions with colleagues at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) regarding planned improvements to the methodology used to estimate excess deaths, as outlined in an ONS blog ...
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