Improving the Written Questions system
Submitting evidence to Parliamentary inquiries is one of the ways in which we can have an effect on the way things work in this country. As you may recall, we recently contributed to the Scottish...
View ArticleTheyWorkForYou update: a richer view of Parliament
TheyWorkForYou aims to improve the quality of UK democracy by making more and better information available to everyone. In previous updates, we’ve expanded coverage to all the UK’s parliaments and...
View ArticleElection reform: a solid start with work ahead
We don’t talk a lot about elections at mySociety: we see our unique contribution as being about the democracy between elections, with a focus on how democratic institutions work (sometimes how they can...
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 ArticleEpisode 2: September 2024
We’ve got updates from Julia on this Parliament’s first Register of Financial interests, showing what second jobs and gifts, etc, MPs have declared; and on the startlingly diminished list of All Party...
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...
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View ArticleFish passports? Any fin is possible
People making FOI requests are sometimes accused of embarking on a ‘fishing expedition’ — looking for news stories without a clear idea of what they will dredge up — but a recent request on...
View ArticleWe believe in the right to protest
mySociety condemns the inclusion of new legislation against protest in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, the second reading of which started on Monday and which continued to be debated and...
View ArticleConnecting parliaments: the opportunities, risks and barriers of digital...
Download the new research report Connected Parliaments here. When TheyWorkForYou launched back in 2004, it was a world first. Never before had parliamentary data been used to power a digital tool...
View ArticleDigitising parliaments: it took a pandemic
Thanks to all who attended the second in our series of TICTeC Seminars this week: and if you weren’t able to attend, catch up with the video or read the collaborative notes taken during the session....
View ArticleKeep on top of the new Parliament
Whether or not you voted for the MP you ended up with, it pays to keep a careful eye on what they’re saying and how they’re voting. Democracy works best as a model when we, the public, hold our MPs to...
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Making votes easier to understand
Parliamentary votes (or ‘divisions’ as they’re known in the lingo) aren’t always the easiest things to understand; yet, as we know from our email inbox, they’re often what our users want to know about...
View ArticleHow your MP voted… in your email inbox
If you subscribe to emails that tell you every time an MP speaks via TheyWorkForYou, then you may have noticed a change in today’s mailout. From today, we’re trialing alerts not just when your chosen...
View ArticleProxy voting and parental absence in Parliament: inquiry report
So proxy voting has been in the news again. For whatever reason, MP Brandon Lewis failed to honour an agreed pairing for Jo Swinson while she was on maternity leave. Those arguing in favour of a more...
View ArticleUsing mySociety data to explore the representation of women
A key part of mySociety’s research agenda is understanding how Civic Technology is (or isn’t) helping under-represented groups in society access government services and their representation. In 2015 we...
View ArticleCelebrating National Democracy Week
Excuse us while we just finish hanging this bunting… Yes, wave the flags and toot those vuvuzelas: it’s National Democracy Week, a new initiative to celebrate the democratic process and encourage...
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Our written evidence to the Parliamentary inquiry on voting by proxy
We’ve submitted evidence to the recent inquiry on whether Parliament should introduce a more formal system of voting by proxy. You can read our submission here, and see submissions from other...
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