| A | B | C | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Amount | of what | Source |
2 | 35000 | mg CO2 emitted posting a paper form with supporting evidence in a large letter with Royal Mail | Royal Mail Carbon Calculator |
3 | 1.6 | mg CO2 emitted sending and receiving 1MB by email | Andrew Johnston blog post |
4 | 1.4 | MB file size of an 8 page PDF form | Medium confidence estimate by Harry Vos, having looking at lots of UK government forms |
5 | 1.5 | MB file size of one piece of evidence attached to email or uploaded to GOV.UK Forms | Medium confidence estimate by Harry Vos |
6 | 3 | pieces of evidence sent with a form | Medium confidence estimate by Harry Vos, having looking at lots of UK government forms |
7 | 0.008 | MB of data received and sent by GOV.UK Forms when a form is submitted | Medium confidence estimate by Harry Vos, having tested with a form with a similar number of questions as an eight page long PDF form |
8 | 2500 | times each form is sent in each year on average | Medium confidence estimate by Harry Vos, having looked at PDF form downloads on GOV.UK and spoken to different teams across government |
9 | 8% | of UK population that doesn't use the internet | Office for National Statistics |
10 | 10% | of users completing a form created with GOV.UK Forms instead of posting a paper form | Medium confidence estimate by Harry Vos, based on having seen how only some UK government forms are only accepted by post |
11 | 8000 | PDF and other document-based forms on GOV.UK | Analysis completed in 2022 by the GOV.UK Forms team at the UK Government Digital Service. Actual figure is slightly larger, I've rounded to nearest 1,000 |