Question follow-through · 19336
Death: Statistics
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.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 16 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 4 Sept 2026 · 50 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jul 2026
Question tabled
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.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Sept 2026
Answer published
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Parliamentary Question of 16th July is attached.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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