The MP for Chelmsford, Simon Burns, has been named as one of the country's most responsive MPs for 2013, according to a recent survey.
The data comes from a website which enables constituents to contact their MPs more easily, even if they're not sure who they are.
The website, WriteToThem, ranked Simon Burns as the 6th most responsive MP in the UK, by asking its users if their MP responded within two weeks of sending a message.
Last year 205 people used the site to contact the Chelmsford Tory and 115 of them answered the follow-up survey to see whether Simon had replied.
Across the UK, the year's figures display a worrying lack of responsiveness from other MPs with only 56 per cent of mail sent to them via the site garnering a response.
Myfanwy Nixon, Marketing and Communications Manager at mySociety, the organisation that runs WriteToThem, said: "Well done to Simon Burns – he has shown that it's possible to keep up with the hefty mailbag that comes with an MP's position.
"The national figure does concern us. MPs are elected to represent us, help us, and listen to our problems. While they have many duties, responding to their constituents should be given high priority.
"Poor performers may counter that they would love to respond to more mail, if only they weren't so busy - but I'm sure that Burns is busy too.
"WriteToThem has safeguards in place which ensure that duplicate or cut-and-paste messages, and messages from outside the MP's constituency are filtered out, so the mail sent through WriteToThem represents real concerns from real citizens. They deserve a reply."How the data was collected
WriteToThem sent 96,396 messages to MPs in the year 2013 and 103,965 to other elected representatives.
58,573 people answered a feedback survey about communicating with an MP. Mail sent via WriteToThem represents less than 1 per cent of the total Parliamentary postbag, so these figures should be viewed as a sample, not the full picture across the board.
The survey asked whether people had received a reply, not just an acknowledgement, from their representative.
People were surveyed initially after two weeks, and if they didn't answer, were surveyed again after three weeks.
Because of this, and because of the way different people interpret the survey, care should be taken when interpreting the figures.
The ranking did not include any MP who received fewer than 20 messages in 2013, as the sample numbers are too small to be indicative.
