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high1971
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how many phone lines are in the houses of parliment

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Asked in phone, parliment asked on: 07/17/2008 02:26pm
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Leohuberh

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6 days after the question was opened (07/22/2008 03:16pm)

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HOUSE OF LORDS

I House of Lords
General Information Peers Administrative Staff Westminster SWI
2 House of Lords - Government Whips Westminster SWI
3 House of Lords - Opposition Whips Westminster SWI
4 House of Lords - Information Office Westminster SWI
5 House of Lords - Record Office Westminster SWI
6 Members of the European Parliament
House Of Lords South East Reqion Baroness Nicholson of Winterboume
2, Ivlillbank, London
7 Wetherspoon di) Public House Lord Moon of the Mall
16, Whitehall, London

Supplement from 07/23/2008 03:38pm:

HOUSE of COMMONS

The enquiry service can be contacted via the following:
House of Commons Information Office House of Commons SW1A 2TT
Tel: 020 7219 4272 Fax: 020 7219 5839 Email: hcinfo@parliament.uk

The office deals with approximately 44,000 phone calls and 4,000 email enquiries per year. A substantial amount of information is provided by the HCIO factsheet collection, which is available via the Parliament website. The factsheet collection (65 in total) deals with subjects ranging from Parliamentary Questions to the Gunpowder plot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Commons_Information_Office copy
Please ask for the " main switchboard "

Each member of Parliament can have a line and has WEB >>
http://www.parliament.uk/directories/hciolists/alms.cfm copy

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siasl74
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The answer will depend on if you mean (A) "how many connections to the PSTN?" or "how many phone sockets are there?" (B) - two different questions, and I don't know the answer to either, but I do know that (A) will be less than (B) :-)

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high1971
high1971

i just ment how many lines as in different numbers to phones i personnally know to 8

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siasl74
siasl74

That'll be number of phone sockets - quite a large number I'd imagine. If they have a decent system, they'll have their own exchange that connects into BTs system.

The main switchboard is 020 7219 3000 - I suspect the last 3 digits can vary for all the other lines at least (whether they use them all is another question), plus some other numbers for pukka public interfaces