It has never been so important for Members to establish effective communications with their constituents and the media as it is today.

Connecting Parliament with the Public (First Report of the Select Committee on Modernisation of the House of Commons, Session 2003-04) recognises that “It serves no-one if we make it difficult for voters to understand what their elected representatives are doing. Too often the impression is given that the House of Commons is a private club, run for the benefit of its Members, where members of the public are tolerated only on sufferance …. However, the Commons can make itself more accessible to those outside … it can do more to make it easier for people to understand the work of Parliament, and it can do more to communicate its activity to the world outside.”

It has been officially recognised by the House of Commons that MPs need an effective medium in which to proactively engage with their constituents.

Additional funding is now available to all MPs through the Communications Allowance to create a website that connects MPs directly with their constituents and the media on matters that effect their everyday life.

Parliament Connect is able to offer a simple one-stop solution, incorporating some of the most sophisticated web communications tools in the industry, which falls fully within the parameters of the Communications Allowance structure.