Day: December 8, 2004

Holding your MP to account

Three sites that help you the citizen make sense of what your elected representatives are doing and hold them to account (in their own words): TheyWorkForYou.comEverything MPs say in the House of Commons is recorded in a document called Hansard. TheyWorkForYou.com helps make sense of this vital democratic resource while allowing you to add comments […]

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Parliament site sucks II

The start of the new Parliamentary session is a reminder just how awkward it is to monitor the progress of bills on the Parliament site. The Bills before parliament page summarises the position thus: Public Bills before ParliamentThe page lists the titles of Public Bills currently before Parliament as well as Amendments to the Bill […]

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