Tag Archives: parliamentary mail

Declining mail

Lord Norton 26/01/2012 – 10:18 am

Each year, I table a question asking how many items of mail were received in the Palace of Westminster in the previous year.  I have previously written on how the number of letters we receive has declined in recent years.  In 2006, for example, 4,789,935 items of post were received.  In 2010, the figure was 3,082,187.  I have now received the answer for 2011.  The figure is 2,691,576.  (Of […]

A cat called Norton

Lord Norton 18/02/2010 – 7:27 pm

I have previously commented on the breadth of material we receive in our parliamentary mail.  My postbag now includes Kennel & Cattery Management.  This comes courtesy of one of our regular readers.  I did read through the latest issue it in case it covered the recent research that found that graduates were more likely to be cat lovers than dog lovers.  It didn't cover that, but the b […]