Esther McVey MP: written questions
4 Jul 2026–16 Oct 2026 · year in progress
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Written questions
Death: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28305More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2026 to Question 19336 on Death: Statistics, whether the ONS will make daily counts by (a) date of death and (b) date of registration available as a downloadable dataset.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28304More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Office for National Statistics will publish historical daily numbers of deaths in England and Wales by (a) date of occurrence and (b) date of registration for periods sufficiently historic that regis
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28303More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what statistical criteria the Office for National Statistics uses to determine that weekly, rather than daily, publication represents the appropriate level of granularity for mortality statistics; and whether th
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28302More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2026 to Question 19336 on Death: Statistics, what quantitative analysis supports the Office for National Statistics' conclusion that publication of daily death figures could
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28301More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment the Office for National Statistics has made of whether the risk of misinterpretation of daily mortality figures could be mitigated through (a) provisional-data labelling, (b) publication of compl
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28300More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Office for National Statistics has assessed the feasibility of publishing deaths by individual date of occurrence subject to a fixed publication lag of (a) 14, (b) 21 and (c) 28 days.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28299More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2026 to Question 19336 on Death: Statistics, whether any statistical criteria prevent publication of death-registration figures by individual date.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28298More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2026 to Question 19336 on Death: Statistics, what proportion of deaths occurring on a given date would ordinarily have been registered 12 days after that date.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28297More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2026 to Question 19336 on Death: Statistics, what estimate the Office for National Statistics has made of the average and maximum revisions to provisional daily numbers of d
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28296More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2026 to Question 19336 on Death: Statistics, what proportion of deaths occurring on a given date in England and Wales are, on average, registered within (a) 1 day, (b) 3 day
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 19336More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will ask the Office for National Statistics to publish a daily dashboard of deaths by date.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Parliamentary Question of 16th July is attached.
Answered 4 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: FraudCabinet OfficeTabled 14 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 18582More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether HM Treasury has produced, commissioned or received an estimate of the total amount lost through fraud and error across Covid-19 support schemes that exceeds the published estimate of £10.9 billion.
Answer: Neither HM Treasury nor the Public Sector Fraud Authority have produced, commissioned or received an estimate of the total amount lost through fraud and error across Covid-19 support schemes that exceeds the published estimate of £10.9bn. The Public Secto...
Answered 17 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: FraudCabinet OfficeTabled 14 Jul 2026Awaiting answerUIN 18580More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what methodology was used to estimate the £10.9 billion of fraud and error in Covid-19 support schemes; whether the estimate includes unidentified fraud; and what estimate the Public Sector Fraud Authority has m
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
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