Hansard

Departmental E-mail

Volume 470: debated on Tuesday 22 January 2008

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Mr. Hoban

To ask the Prime Minister pursuant to the answer of 18 December 2007, Official Report, column 1229W, to the right hon. Member for Horsham, on departmental e-mail, (1) how many e-mails sent to him by members of the public through the No. 10 website have been replied to; and how many of those replies have been based on a pro forma response; (178352)

(2) which members of staff in Downing Street read the e-mails sent to him through the No. 10 website;

(3) how many members of the public have e-mailed him in each month since 27 June 2007;

(4) what procedures there are (a) to identify whether e-mails sent to the webpage are party political in nature and (b) to deal with such e-mails.

Mr. Maude

To ask the Prime Minister pursuant to the answer of 18 December 2007, Official Report, column 1229W, on departmental e-mail, whether he personally reads the e-mails sent to him by members of the public via the No. 10 website. (181337)

The Prime Minister

Since 27 June 2007, I have received approximately 27,000 e-mails via the No. 10 website. All e-mails are read by my Office, however, as made clear on the No. 10 website, it is not possible to reply to all e-mails.