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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...
View ArticleWhoFundsThem: the findings
To rebuild public trust in our political system we need better data, stronger checks, tighter rules and ultimately, systematic reform. Over the last few months, 50 volunteers helped the TheyWorkForYou...
View ArticleUpdating TheyWorkForYou’s voting summaries
Last year we undertook a major overhaul of our approach to the voting record summaries on TheyWorkForYou. This was aimed at creating a sharper and clearer throughline to the summaries, supported by...
View ArticleDevolved parliamentary registers of interest now on TheyWorkForYou
At the start of the month we made a major update to TheyWorkForYou coverage of registers of interests. This added enhanced registers of election donations and gifts (using volunteers to add more...
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