More from MySociety.Org

Further to my last post I had a further look around another of their sites, TheyWorkForYou.Com.

Although still in beta, it seems that this site has moved on a quite a bit since I last looked at it. For example…

• The Home page now contains links to ‘yesterdays’ events in the House of Commons, House of Lords, and a number of other areas of government.

• The Hansard page now contains links to verbatim sessions for the House of Commons, House of Lords, Northern Ireland Assembly and the Scottish Parliament. One interesting feature of  the verbatim debates sub page where you are able to leave a comment about what the relevant MP/Lord has said. I’m not sure what happens to these comments – are they forwarded to the relevant speaker?

• The Your MP page allows you find your own local MP by Postcode and once that has happened, the page then displays everything that you need to about your own MP including their voting record on a range of issues – this section will make you sit up! Also as it’s topical; there’s a section your own MP’s expenses.

• The All MP’s page lists all of MP’s with link to their own MySociety.org page, this is where the Your MP page gets it information. You can also see on the All MP’s page which government department/committee that each MP is part of.

• The All Lords page is basically the same as the All MP’s page.

• The All MLA’s page again is basically the same as the All MP’s and All Lords page except this one covers Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

It’s a very interesting site and I am sure will have much more added to it as time goes on. Take a good browse around.