Annex 2
Statistical information on the workload of MPs
Number of electors/people per MP 1922-2010
Source: Railings and Thrasher, British Electoral
Facts: 1832-2006 (2007), pp 88-92.
House of Commons Library data.
Office for National Statistics population data.
B R Mitchell, British Historical Statistics (1988), pp 13-14.
Pages of legislation (Public and General Acts
and Statutory Instruments)
Source: Parliamentary Trends: Statistics about
Parliament, House of Commons Library Research Paper 09/69, 12
August 2009, Table 2.
Select Committee meetings per sitting day
Liaison Committee, Second Report of 2009-10, HC
426, The Work of Committees in 2008-09; First Report of 2008-09,
HC 291,The Work of Committees in 2007-08; and Sessional Returns
for 1985-86 to 1996-97.
Select Committee reports per sitting day
Liaison Committee, Second Report of Session 2009-10,
HC 426, The Work of Committees in 2008-09; First Report of Session
2008-09, HC 291,The Work of Committees in 2007-08; and Sessional
Returns for 1985-86 to 1996-97.
Written Parliamentary Questions per sitting day
Parliamentary Trends: Statistics about Parliament,
House of Commons Library Research Paper 09/69, 12 August 2009,
Table 2; and Sessional Returns for 1987-88 to 1989-90.
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