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The demise of snail mail

Lord Norton 22/01/2013 – 11:57 am

I have previously written about the decline in the volume of letters received in the Palace of Westminster.  At the beginning of each year, I put down a question to find out how many items of correspondence were received in the Palace in the preceding year.  I have now received the figure for 2012.  The figures for 2005 onwards are (with the percentage going to the Lords in parenthesis): […]

Written at 11:57 am on 22/01/2013, by Lord Norton

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Lobbying the Lords

Lord Norton 16/09/2011 – 10:56 am

One of the comments in response to Baroness Murphy's post touches upon the extent to which people are now encouraged to lobby members of the House of Lords.  In this, there is nothing new.  One survey conducted in 1986 of charities, consumer groups, unions and other organised interests found that 70% had approached peers for the purpose of making representations to government or to influence pu […]

Written at 10:56 am on 16/09/2011, by Lord Norton

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Snail mail to e-mail

Lord Norton 19/04/2011 – 7:51 pm

I am spending the week commuting between the annual conference of the Political Studies Association (PSA), which this year is being held in London, and the Lords.   This morning I was at the conference speaking, at rather short notice, on the English Question and the coalition.   The purpose of this post, though, is to focus on Westminster.  Although both Houses are not sitting, the Palace re […]

Written at 7:51 pm on 19/04/2011, by Lord Norton


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