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Opengovt tracks how power is used in Britain.

We record how MPs vote, what they declare, what they earn outside Parliament and what they claim in expenses. We also compare what councils charge residents with what they provide in return.

The record is drawn from named public sources: Hansard for divisions and debates, the Register of Members’ Financial Interests for declarations, House of Commons data for expenses, the Electoral Commission for donations, Companies House for directorships, and government statistics for departmental performance. Each figure links back to where it came from.

MP profiles use caricatures instead of official portraits because politics already comes with enough image management. We are not here to add to it.

Our journalists publish without bylines. The work should stand or fall on whether it is accurate. Every factual claim is checked against a public record before publication; when something is wrong and it is found, it is corrected and the correction is logged.

Readers can also record how they would have voted on the same Commons divisions MPs faced, then compare their choices with their own MP’s.

Opengovt is independent. It is not part of Parliament, GOV.UK or any government body. It takes no government funding and carries no party label.

A note on our name

We changed our name to opengovt in 2026 as a courtesy, to avoid confusion with another organisation.

Six Months of Facial Recognition at London Stations Found No Wanted Suspects

Live facial recognition cameras were used at seven London railway stations on 17 occasions since February. They identified no one on a police watchlist. The single alert they produced was a false match.

Live facial recognition cameras have been used at London railway stations 17 times since February. They have yet to identify anybody on a police watchlist.

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Patients Will Remain in Hospitals at Risk of Structural Failure Beyond 2030 →

Seven hospitals built from crumble-prone reinforced concrete will stay in use past the 2030 date once set for their replacement, now due in 2032–33. Keeping them safe until then will cost close to £1 billion. The wider hospital-building programme will not finish until 2045–46.

Latest from Whitehall

Government press releases, published as issued

If an Election Were Held Now · as of 20 Sept 2026

From the House this week

Every bill. Every vote. Every law.

Follow what Parliament is doing right now, in plain English, then cast your own vote on every bill. Vote now →

The Westminster Revolving Door Never Stops Spinning →

Different parties, different governments, different slogans, and yet the same people keep appearing. The revolving door rarely involves breaking the law. What these twenty cases raise, one by one, is whether public influence is being turned into private income.

Operation Hexagon: Why Were Police Looking at People Talking About Oldham’s Grooming Scandal?

Greater Manchester Police spent nearly two and a half years running an operation linked to online claims about historic child sexual exploitation in Oldham. It was not the operation investigating the alleged abusers.

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The biggest expenses bill

The ten biggest claimants ran up the largest bills last financial year. See which MPs spent the most and on what.

See the full top ten →

Every manifesto. Every shift.

What each of the fifteen UK parties told voters in 2024, what they have done since, and where the gap is widest.

Read the dossiers →

Who runs Whitehall

All twenty four ministerial departments graded against the public record of what they were set up to do.

See the departments →

This week in Parliament

The bills before the House of Commons this week and the most recent votes MPs have held.

See what MPs are voting on →

Opengovt is an independent record of how the United Kingdom is governed.

Every Member of Parliament has a profile here. Their voting record, their declared earnings, the bills they have sponsored, the hours they spend on second jobs, and a biographical note that reads as a political assessment rather than a press release. Each of the 24 ministerial departments has its own institutional performance report, marked by letter grade, against the public record of what it was set up to do. Every bill since 2010 is tracked through its stages of Parliament: which Members spoke for and against, how the division went on each reading, and whether it became law.

The transparency surfaces sit alongside the formal record. Ministers’ meetings, ministers’ hospitality, the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, awarded public contracts and political donations are pulled from the public registers daily, indexed by Member and by department, searchable.

The site exists because the public record is real but inaccessible. Every fact on opengovt is drawn from the public record. None of it is invented. None of it is opinion in the sense of being made up. The interpretative judgements in the institutional reports and the political biographies are the editorial work of the project; the underlying record is not.

If something is wrong, it can be corrected. If something is missing, it can be added.