Speeches

Andrew Turner – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the House of Commons Commission

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Turner on 2015-02-10.

To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, what the average daily number of letters sent from the House of Commons to Government departments was in each year since 2000.

John Thurso

The number of letters sent from the House of Commons to Government Departments via the Inter-Despatch Service (IDS) over the period for which records are held is listed below. No count was made of individual items before May 2012 and so no information is available prior to this date.

Number of items
2012 (May–Dec) 31,849
2013 42,243
2014 36,512
2015 (Jan) 3,426