SIR – As this Parliament enters its final session before the 2015 General Election, the coalition will be remembered for its success in restoring some credibility to the nation’s finances, but also for its complete failure to reform our systems of Governance.

For example, efforts to revise electoral boundaries and reduce the number of MPs to 600 by balancing constituents at around 100,000 was abandoned due to a spat between Lib Dem and Conservative elements over House of Lords reform.

Astonishing when in India each MP there represents almost 2,000,000 constituents with even US Congressmen having around 700,000 each to look after.

In the UK, we have in addition to 650 MPs – plus almost 1,000 in the House of Lords – a Scottish Parliament and Assemblies in both Wales and Northern Ireland who only control parts of their regions, such as health, education and transport, still needing to send numerous MPs to Westminster, who often vote on laws affecting only England.

To add to all these hangers-on and drain the public purse even more, Police and Crime Commissioners have been created for England and Wales plus many more quangos in spite of previous promises to ‘make a bonfire’ of these.

What our small country needs is far fewer politicians, doing a full time job of work, being paid a proper salary commensurate with that responsibility.

D S Boyes, Upper Rodley Lane, Leeds