So my FOI request for data on deaths per occupation, as was produced in 2020, came back to say they haven't & won't collect such data. So for the past year, we will have no idea how many teachers/nurses/bus drivers caught covid & died whilst working through lockdowns etc. 🧵1/
The Office for National Statistics referred me back to the previous year's data: Deaths per Occupation March-Dec 2020, which is what I'd asked them to replicate for this year. Underneath the heading out now says this type of report is 'discontinued'. 2/