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He may be a brand new Prime Minister…but he’s been in Parliament before.
With all the fuss about Andy Burnham becoming Prime Minister, it may be easy to forget that he’s been in Parliament before — as an MP. That means that he already had a page on TheyWorkForYou, our...
View ArticleTheyWorkForYou voting summaries update: July 2026
Representatives in the UK’s Parliaments and Assemblies do many things, but one of the most important is that they make decisions. These decisions shape the laws that govern us, and can affect every...
View ArticleWelsh residents now have six MSs, and they all work for you
Whether or not you voted, or no matter who you voted for, every person in Wales is now represented by six MSs in the Senedd. And the good news is, we’re here to help you navigate the new system! ✉️...
View ArticleA tribute to Mark Longair
It was with immense sadness that the mySociety team learned of the death of our much loved ex-colleague Mark Longair. Mark first came to mySociety as a volunteer, contributing his time and coding...
View ArticleTheyWorkForYou Update: A richer view of Parliament
We want to improve the quality of UK democracy by making more and better information about Parliament available to everyone. In previous updates to TheyWorkForYou, we’ve expanded the range of official...
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Improving TheyWorkForYou email alerts
You can subscribe to TheyWorkForYou’s alerts to receive email updates on representatives’ parliamentary speeches and questions — but they’re also strongly used by civil society as a parliamentary...
View ArticleTheyWorkForYou voting summaries update: October 2025
This update to TheyWorkForYou voting summaries brings us up to date as of the end of September 2025 (covering Q2+Q3 2025). To learn more about our process for updating MPs’ voting summaries, please...
View ArticleNew on TheyWorkForYou: browse your MP’s APPG memberships
If you’ve ever wondered what your MP is interested in outside of their party alignment, a good place to look is All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs). These groups bring MPs and Peers from different...
View ArticleWork in progress: Statements, EDMs and open letters
Here are some notes on our in-progress work on TheyWorkForYou, including what we’re doing around Early Day Motions (EDMs) and open letters. To put this link at the top, we’re looking for more examples...
View ArticleVoting summaries update: July 2025
We have completed our quarterly update to the TheyWorkForYou voting summaries and they’re now complete as of the end of March 2025. We’ve added 20 votes to TheyWorkForYou’s voting summaries, covering...
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Introducing TheyWorkForYou Votes
Today we’re launching TheyWorkForYou Votes – our new vote information platform. Our goal with this service is to create and support better analysis of decisions taken in the UK’s Parliaments. We want...
View ArticleTheyWorkForYou: how you can help
Here’s an update on some upcoming TheyWorkForYou projects, and how you can help us make them better. TheyWorkForYou has also joined Bluesky – so follow us there! Come to the launch of TheyWorkForYou...
View ArticleTheyWorkForYou has a new votes platform, and we want to tell you about it!
TheyWorkForYou Votes is mySociety’s new platform that provides more information than ever about how MPs (and other elected representatives) have voted. It’s launching on Monday 19th May, and we’re...
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...
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 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 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 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 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...
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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...
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