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 brought all the registers of interests together.

Now we’re pulling in data from beyond Parliament to provide richer insights into your representatives. Alex and Julia share our new features:

• Committees and APPG memberships
• Signatures (Early Day Motions and open letters)
• Vote annotations
• Adding context to parliamentary debates
• Improved email alerts for political monitoring

No intro this time: we’re plunging you straight into the audio from the event!

Useful links:

• If you’d prefer to watch the video of this session, it’s on our YouTube channel.
• TheyWorkForYou is here, and TheyWorkForYou votes is here.
• Donate! It helps us do more of this sort of work! Thank you!
• Subscribe to our updates here (make sure ‘Democracy & Parliaments’ is ticked if that’s what you’re interested in).
• Julia mentions Local Intelligence Hub, which you can play with here.
• Alex mentions a video about how other parliamentary websites get audiences in an age when search engines have become less useful: it’s this one – also available as a podcast here.

Transcript

00:00 Julia Cushion Thanks so much for coming along to this little update. We try and do these every so often.

00:03 You might have come to our one a few months ago, we were talking about TheyWorkForYou Votes, whereas today, we’re telling you about some of the broader stuff we’ve been up to on TheyWorkForYou. We’re calling it “A richer view of Parliament.” (more…)