Improving TheyWorkForYou’s voting summaries
If you value the work mySociety and TheyWorkForYou do, please consider whether you can make a donation. We have a good track record of making Parliament more open, provide essential tools to civil...
View ArticleAnd we’re off: gathering information on financial interests and APPGs
We’ve kickstarted the WhoFundsThem project, and now we have a (tight!) timeline of work WhoFundsThem is our new project looking to uncover the influence of money in politics. You can donate or...
View ArticleOff by one: How Parliament counts votes is out of date
Last night there was a vote to allow MPs to be excluded from Parliament (after a risk assessment) if arrested on suspicion of a serious offence. This vote passed by a single vote. The problem is,...
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Face the general election like a pro, with mySociety’s tools
There’s going to be a UK general election on 4 July. We’ve written a 10-point guide to explain how the election works. Here’s how our tools can help you cut through the noise and find out what’s...
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Updating TheyWorkForYou on election night
My colleague Alex has already written about looking forward from this election, so here I am going to look back at the technical work that was involved for the election, and in getting all the new MPs...
View ArticleNew register of interests spreadsheet – with much richer data
Tl;dr: Parliament has released new data, which we’ve made available in a simple format. As part of the new release of the register of financial interests (which we blogged about yesterday) –...
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WhoFundsThem: We’re creating better information about MPs financial interests
There’s a lot in the news right now about the Register of MPs’ financial interests, where MPs are supposed to declare all extra income and donations they receive. For years TheyWorkForYou has...
View ArticleInterest disclosures for last week: landlords and tennis
During debates in Parliament, if an MP has a conflict of interest, they are supposed to disclose this as part of their speech. In practice, many of these disclosures don’t have detail on exactly what...
View ArticleWhat have we learned about APPGs?
Our first round of information requests was a mixed bag: here’s what we learned and what we’re trying next. In mid-September we sent an information request to the 34 All Party Parliamentary Groups...
View ArticleWhoFundsThem Update: December
WhoFundsThem is our new project looking into MPs’ and APPGs’ financial interests. We want to improve the information available in TheWorkForYou, make better data available, and improve the standard of...
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