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

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:

Author Type	Number of submissions
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.

Author Type	14-Nov to 13-Dec	14-Dec to 31-Jan	Feb 2012	Mar 2012	Apr 2012	May 2012	Jun 2012	Jul 2012	Aug 2012	Sep 2012	Oct 2012
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
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
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
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
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

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.

1. http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/about/submissions-and-emails-received/

2. this figure excludes 2 submissions which were processed outside of the General Enquiries Mailbox (and recorded at alater date); or were supplementary submissions which were not counted as new submissions for the January total

3. this figure excludes 18 submissions which were processed outside of the General Enquiries Mailbox (and recorded ata later date); or were supplementary submissions which were not counted as new submissions for the February total

4. figures rounded to the nearest whole number