'They Work For You'

The performance data of David Hanson, MP for Delyn:

• Spoke in 0 debates in the last year — 490th out of 645 MPs.
• Asked 0 written questions in the last year — 407th out of 645 MPs.
• Expenses £127,824 (158th)
• Attendance: 1114 votes out of 1246, 89.4% (2001-5) and 1045 votes out of 1273, 82.1% (1997-2001)
  
• Rebellions: 6 votes out of 1114, 0.5% (2001-05) and 1 vote out of 1045, 0.1% (1997-2001)
• Replied within 14 days to 36% of messages sent via FaxYourMP.com during 2004 — 495th out of 590 MPs (Sample size: 11 faxes).

Important Caveat: The fax statistics merely provide a broad indication of an individual MP's performance, and in a minority of cases they may be grossly unfair to otherwise conscientious MPs.

Useful links:

• www.theyworkforyou.com
• www.faxyourmp.com/
• www.publicwhip.org.uk/
• www.bloggerheads.com/mps_weblogs.asp