Keeping tabs on the UK’s parliaments & assemblies
Devolved parliamentary registers of interest now on TheyWorkForYou
27 March 2025 @ 8:45 am
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 details and summaries to disclosures made after the last election) and a highlighted interests page. We have also released a major report looking…
A county council’s view of the Scorecards
26 March 2025 @ 9:12 am
The Council Climate Action Scorecards were recently mentioned in East Sussex County Council’s Written Questions (see question 12, on the council’s score for mitigation and adaptation). When we spot that the Scorecards are helping to inform councils’ conversations like this, we often make contact to find out more. East Sussex were happy to fill us…
Volunteering for Scorecards opens new possibilities
25 March 2025 @ 9:58 am
The Council Climate Action Scorecards project, which assesses local councils on their climate action, is only possible thanks to a large number of people who give up their time to volunteer. Their job is to source and analyse data from a variety of places, analysing more than 40 different possible pieces of climate action that…
Making FixMyStreet and FixMyStreet Pro more accessible
14 March 2025 @ 9:09 am
Our front-end designer Lucas Cumsille Montesinos highlights some of the work he’s been doing recently to make FixMyStreet and all integrated co-branded versions of the service running on FixMyStreet Pro more accessible – a crosspost from the SocietyWorks blog. ___ Over the past year we have been collaborating with users of FixMyStreet and FixMyStreet Pro…
Updating TheyWorkForYou’s voting summaries
13 March 2025 @ 9:04 am
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 updated explanations of parliamentary voting. We have just made the first update to our voting summaries of the new Parliament, with the information…
mySociety’s democracy work in 2025
13 March 2025 @ 9:03 am
Over the next few months we’re making some major updates to TheyWorkForYou improving our coverage of registers of interests, votes, and the email alerts system. If you’d like to be updated as things are released, please sign up to our newsletter. What do you value about TheyWorkForYou and our democracy work? We want to understand…
News from the ATI Network – Feb 2025
6 March 2025 @ 1:46 pm
February has been a whirlwind but we’re back deep in TICTeC organisation and looking forward to the sunny summer sun in Belgium in June. Let’s see what the network have been up to this month! FragDenStaat: are promoting the use of FOI to counter the activities and disinformation spread by the far right movement in…
Beyond Transparency: Q&A
5 March 2025 @ 4:07 pm
Yesterday we had a launch event for our new features on TheyWorkForYou and report on money in politics. We didn’t get time for all the questions, so we’ve answered a few now. You can also a look at the report, the new features on TheyWorkForYou, and donations are appreciated if you like this direction for…
Has your local authority declared a Nature Emergency?
4 March 2025 @ 1:14 pm
Has your local authority declared a Nature Emergency? – Find out with a new service from the Woodland Trust, Climate Emergency UK, and mySociety! The UK nations are among the most nature-depleted in the world. But there’s hope! Just as we’ve found with climate action, the UK’s local authorities hold the power to drive the…
WhoFundsThem: the findings
4 March 2025 @ 12:01 am
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 team go through the Register of Members’ Financial Interests (RMFI), line by line, for all 650 MPs. We were looking for specific bits of information,…