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An Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press · 2012

Appendix 2: Submissions and correspondence statistics

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Appendix 2: Submissions and correspondence statistics

1. Introduction

Over the course of the Inquiry, submissions and emails have been received from members of the public, industry stakeholders, campaign and interest groups as well as academics, through the general enquiries mailbox. The Inquiry has been committed to publishing these statistics on the Inquiry's website on a monthly basis.1 http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/about/submissions-and-emails-received/

2. Submissions

The following submissions have been received by the Inquiry since the start of formal public hearings, between 14 November 2011 and 31 October 2012:

  • Journalist (current) — 24

  • Journalist (former) — 43

  • Editor (current) — 6

  • Editor (former) — 7

  • Academic — 53

  • Broadcaster — 4

  • Members of the public — 590

  • MP/Peer — 27

  • Victim of press treatment — 163

  • Campaign organisation — 83

  • Press photographer — 10

  • Police (current) — 8

  • Police (former) — 11

  • PI or investigatory body — 2

  • Regulator — 13

  • Trade association — 4

  • Legal — 18

  • Other — 17

The Inquiry has received a total of 1,083 submissions between 14 November 2011 and 31 October 2012. Table 1 below shows the monthly breakdown of the number of submissions received each month, by author type.

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Total Submissions Received through the General Enquiries Mailbo Author Type 14-Nov 14-Dec Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul 2012 Aug Sep Oct to 13- to 31- 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 APPENDICES Dec Jan

this figure excludes 2 submissions which were processed outside of the General Enquiries Mailbox (and recorded at a

  • Journalist (Current) 9 5 0 1 3 1 3 1 0 0 — 0

  • Journalist (Former) 18 5 3 3 3 4 2 1 1 1 — 0

  • Editor (Current) 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 — 0

  • Editor (Former) 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0

  • Academic 21 12 2 2 1 3 12 1 0 0 — 0

  • Broadcaster n/a n/a 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 — 1

later date); or were supplementary submissions which were not counted as new submissions for the January total

  • Members of the Public 215 73 40 19 34 60 93 31 6 5 — 2

  • MP / Peer 10 6 2 2 0 2 2 3 0 0 — 0

  • Victim of press treatment 93 24 16 9 2 3 5 3 3 3 — 0

  • Campaign organisation 23 20 7 7 2 1 7 10 3 0 — 0

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  • Press photographer 4 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 — 0

  • Police (current) 1 0 2 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 — 0

this figure excludes 18 submissions which were processed outside of the General Enquiries Mailbox (and recorded at

  • Police (former) 1 4 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0

  • PI or investigatory body n/a n/a 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0

  • Regulator 7 2 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 — 0

  • Trade Association n/a n/a 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 — 0

  • Legal 2 7 3 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 — 0

  • Other 0 6 2 1 0 0 3 5 1 0 — 0

a later date); or were supplementary submissions which were not counted as new submissions for the February total

  • Total: 411 1692 873 49 49 77 135 58 15 10 — 3

Percentage change by Month4 (%): n/a -59 -49 -44 0 +36 +75 -57 -74 -33 -70

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3. General enquiries correspondence

In addition to the 1,083 submissions received through the general enquiries mailbox, the Inquiry has also received 2,502 general pieces of correspondence since the start of formal public hearings on 14 November 2011. These have been categorised accordingly:

  • 2,452 enquiries;
  • 22 FOI queries; and
  • 28 pieces of other correspondence.

4. Website views

Between 14 November 2011 and 31 October 2012, the Leveson Inquiry website has received 1,805,939 hits from 652,675 unique visitors from over 200 countries.

5. Press reporting during the Inquiry

Since it was established, the Inquiry has had the benefit of daily summaries of relevant press stories, provided by an independent organisation, from all of the UK national newspapers and some international titles.

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