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Party voting instructions should be public
Summary 62% of the public agree that parties should be public with how they instruct their MPs to vote. 55% of the public think MPs are personally responsible for their vote, regardless of party...
View ArticleMPs’ Register of Financial Interests
Donations to MPs are in the news again, and TheyWorkForYou allows users to easily see what any individual MP has received. In fact, the site has carried a copy of the Register of Members’ Financial...
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TheyWorkForYou alerts are helping keep prisoners informed
The TheyWorkForYou alerts system will send you an email every time your chosen keyword is mentioned in Parliament. A recent survey revealed that this system is being used by a broad range of different...
View ArticleTheyWorkForYou, now with added Senedd
Thanks to funding from the Welsh Government, our parliamentary website TheyWorkForYou now includes debates and a list of all Members of the Senedd, in both English and Welsh. Find them via...
View ArticleTheyWorkForYou provides essential services for civil society — and beyond
This blog post is part of our Repowering Democracy series. This year we will be publishing a series of short pieces of writing from our staff, and external contributors who are thinking about how our...
View ArticleMass mobilisation of supporters with WriteToThem
Power for People would like to see a transformation in the way we provide energy in this country – by removing barriers to small-scale renewable energy schemes, owned and run by people in their local...
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This is not just any Impact Report…
…this is mySociety’s 20th anniversary Impact Report! This has been a very special year – mySociety’s 20th anniversary. So we haven’t just put together our usual review of the past twelve months: this...
View ArticleImproving the register of MPs interests
Tl;dr: We’re now releasing our register of interests data as a spreadsheet. High quality data about the external interests of our MPs and ministers is vital to identifying conflicts of interests, and...
View ArticleFoodbanks and TheyWorkForYou alerts
Give Food is an independent UK charity, founded in early 2020. They run the only national public database of UK foodbanks, and provide an up-to-date index of what goods each one is asking to be...
View ArticleGaza Ceasefire votes and voting records
What happened? Yesterday in the House of Commons, there was an SNP Opposition Day debate about a ceasefire in Gaza. This meant that the SNP had an opportunity to put forward a motion for the House to...
View ArticleImproving 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...
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