 Homepage | |
Type of site | Parliamentary monitoring |
|---|---|
| Owner | mySociety |
| Created by | generated by Parliamentary proceedings |
| URL | theyworkforyou.com |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 2004[1] |
| Current status | Active |
TheyWorkForYou is a parliamentary monitoring website operated by mySociety which aims to make it easier for UK citizens to understand what is going on in Westminster, as well as the Scottish Parliament, the Senedd and the Northern Ireland Assembly. It also helps create accountability for UK politicians by publishing a complete archive of every word spoken in Parliament, along with a voting record and other details for each MP, past and present.
TheyWorkForYou does not publish original content: it scrapes from the official sources, then presents debates and information about representatives in a more accessible version. For example, TheyWorkForYou's version of Hansard may be searched, and each section has its own permalink so that it can be shared easily.
The site aggregates content from the Hansard records of the House of Commons, House of Lords, Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly, along with other publicly available data such as the MPs Register of Members' Interests, election results, and voting records, providing a "digital dossier on your local MP".[2] It also has a facility to alert users by email to speeches by an MP or specific words appearing in Hansard. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph rated it 41st in a list of the 101 most useful websites.[3]
- ^ "About us - TheyWorkForYou".
- ^ Booth, Jenny. "Checking up on the ruling class - Times Online". The Times. London.
- ^ "The 101 most useful websites". The Daily Telegraph. 30 March 2008.