FOI 44-22: Deaths in North Ireland and the COVID-19 vaccination

Information Standards Freedom of Information Response

Our Ref: FOI 44-22

14 September 2022

Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“FOIA”)

I am writing to confirm that the Northern Ireland Assembly Commission (Assembly Commission) has processed your request dated 5 September 2022 in line with the Freedom of Information Act 2000. In your request, you asked:

“1. What are the excess deaths in N. Ireland between March 2020 to date.

2. Of all deaths in N. Ireland between Dec 2020 to date how many have been cov19 vaccinated.”

The Assembly Commission does not hold this information. However, in order to provide advice and assistance under section 16 of the FOIA 2000, you may wish to contact the Department for Health in order to obtain any information that they may hold.

You have the right to request a formal review by the Assembly Commission and if you wish to do so, please write to me at the above address. If after such an internal review you are still unhappy with the response, you may appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF which will undertake an independent review.

The Assembly Commission may publish details of your FOI request and its official response within the organisational disclosure log. The request will be completely anonymised and you will not be identified in any way. This is to meet the requirements as laid out by in the agreed publication scheme with the Information Commissioners’ Office.

Yours sincerely

INFORMATION STANDARDS