How online are British MPs?

The UK Parliament’s website lists email and website details for all the current MPs. A series of spots checks shows the data to look accurate (though of course there may be one or two errors in there somewhere). So I’ve been counting. And then, of course, I’ve drawn three bar charts.

They show in turn, what percentage of Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs:

1. Have no public email address provided on the Parliament website (there’s no Lib Dem bar, because they all have one),
2. Have no website addresses listed on the Parliament website (and Parliament is reasonably generous at listing sites that are really sub-sites of something larger), and
3. Have neither a public email address nor a website listed.

So without further ado, here are the bars:

Personally, I’m quite surprised at just how many Labour and Conservative MPs don’t have either. For both it’s under 1 in 20. That is despite the way the internet is so heavily used by the public now, the responsibilities of an MP to make themselves available to people, and not forgetting the staff and other assistance available to MPs (including having a Parliament email address set up for all of them).

Why would any MP have neither a public email address nor a website?