Importance of personal contact versus written communication in informing MEPs thinking on policy issues

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Personal contact provides the most important information

Personal contact (meetings/phone calls) is clearly more important than written contact irrespective of the actor. Communication from representatives of groups of voters (local community and business leaders, local elected officials) has more weight than contact from stakeholders or individual voters.

Perhaps unsurprisingly there is little difference between political groups on this point.