Ranked 433 out of 653 MPs nationally
According to independent research site “Write to them.com” retiring MP Hugh Bayley achieved only a “medium” score on responsiveness to resident’s communications. He had achieved a “high” score the previous year.
Julian Sturdy the Conservative MP for the neighbouring York Outer seat also only achieved a medium score.
The scores were based on the proportion of communications that an MP responded to.
In Hugh Bayley’s case he replied to 34 of 73 communications, while Julian Sturdy managed 31 responses to 59 contacts
Nationally the best MP (Michael Ellis, Conservative, Northampton) replied to all 32 contacts that he received.
Iain Duncan Smith Conservative for Chingford came bottom of the table replying to only 4 out of 55 contacts.
Four MPs however declined to respond at all to the “write to them” web site. (Barbara Keeley, Labour, Worsley; Dominic Raab, Conservative, Esher; Liz McInnes, Labour, Heywood and Nadine Dorries, Conservative, Bedfordshire.