Excess Winter Deaths Cover Up -UK government agencies manipulate inconvenient stats
Wed 8:12 am +00:00, 26 Aug 2026
Source: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2026/08/25/excess-winter-deaths-cover-up/
For more than a decade, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published annual reports detailing excess winter mortality in England & Wales. In other words, how many more people had died in winter on average, compared to the rest of the year.
More explicitly:
Or at least they did until 2022, when their final report was published, which told us that excess winter deaths in 2021/22 had amounted to 13,400.
After that, the publications ceased, ostensibly with no explanation whatsoever. It took a Freedom of Information request to elicit the reason:
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Previously published annual data on excess winter mortality from 1950 to 2022 are available in our Winter mortality in England and Wales Statistical bulletins, using the excess winter deaths (EWD) and excess winter mortality index (EWMI) measures. However, this release was discontinued following the consultation that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) ran with the Department for Health and Social Care (including the Office for Health Improvements and Disparities), NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and NHS England. This was because of limitations with the methodology used to produce these measures.
The UKHSA published a Cold mortality monitoring report, England: winter 2024 to 2025 annual report on 18 February 2026 at 9:30am. This report provides the first national estimates of mortality associated with low temperatures during cold weather episodes in England over the winter season. These results are intended to inform public health preparedness and support action to reduce health impacts during periods of cold weather in England.
Limitations with the methodology? That is ridiculous and they are gaslighting the public. The ONS methodology was both simple and unarguable.
There is no need for complicated statistics.
The consultation the ONS speak of was clearly a political stitch-up from the start, directed by the NHS and the UKHSA.
The undeniable fact that many more people die in winter months has long been an embarrassment to the Government’s Climate Agenda. Attempts to scare the public about the health implications of a warmer climate are invariably met with the response that a warmer climate will save lives overall. Meanwhile, silly amber alerts from the Met Office about a bit of sunny weather are routinely mocked and ignored with thousands flocking to the beaches instead.
So, how to get rid of this pesky excess winter death data? Simples – just stop publishing it.
Instead, as the ONS note, we must now rely on the UKHSA, the Government’s UK Health Security Agency, to provide us with the information. And here is their first annual bulletin, published in February 2026:
Miraculously, excess winter deaths have fallen from tens of thousands to just 2544!
How has this been achieved?
Instead of analysing mortality throughout the whole of the winter, they have simply looked at just a few days when it was extremely cold.
It was the UKHSA that falsely claimed 1504 died last summer from the heat. In other words, according to the UKHSA, roughly the same number of people die from heat as die from cold every year.
Although the ONS no longer publish the excess death data, the monthly mortality statistics on which it is based is still available.
Using exactly the same methodology as the ONS, I can confirm that the winter excess deaths in 2025/26 totalled 24,272. Between December 2025 and March 2026, the average number of registered deaths was 51,174; this compares to 45,106 for the August to November 2025 & April to July 2026 periods.
It’s also worth looking at the seasonal patterns. As usual, there were fewer deaths last summer than any of the other seasons.
According to the ONS, they are “the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics and its recognised national statistical institute”.
If they are truly “independent”, why have they bowed the knee to Government demands to cease the publication of politically inconvenient statistics?
