Porn habit of British Parliament unveiled

LONDON

In this image taken from video, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, front left, stands to speak to the assembled parliament during a debate on Syria, in Britain's parliament, London, Thursday Aug. 29, 2013. AP Photo / PA

More than 300,000 attempts were made to access pornographic websites at the British Parliament in the past year, official records have revealed.

However, it is unclear whether lawmakers, peers or other staff were responsible, officials said.

The figure, which averages more than 800 per day, was released by IT chiefs at the Palace of Westminster in response to a freedom of information request. About 5,000 people work on the parliamentary estate.

 “We do not consider the data to provide an accurate representation of the number of purposeful requests made by network users,” a parliamentary spokeswoman said.

Some of the hits may have been registered by websites that generate a number of views during a single visit, or those that automatically link to other sites via pop-ups, she explained.Prime Minister David Cameron announced in July that most households in the United Kingdom would have pornography blocked