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Who runs Open Govt, how the data is gathered and the editorial principles behind it.

Registers of interests, expenses, lobbying, donations and contracts, in one list.

Acts of the UK Parliament that have received Royal Assent, with original sponsor and stage history.

All 23 UK government departments: Secretary of State, junior ministers, budget and a performance report.

Profiles of all 650 UK MPs: voting records, expenses, registered interests and contact details.

The 15 UK parties Open Govt covers, each with its number of current MPs and a link to its promises against its record, its donations and its whip record.

Every All Party Parliamentary Group on the register: its category, chair and officers, its funders, and the benefits it declared, in value bands.

Every policy area in one place: its department, votes, bills and the MPs who scrutinise it.

Alliance Party: Open Govt's verdict, linking to its promises against its record on 11 themes, its donations and how often its MPs rebel.

Every organisation that funds one or more All Party Parliamentary Groups, ranked by groups funded.

Every All Party Parliamentary Group on the register: its category, chair and officers, its funders, and the benefits it declared, in value bands.

The firms and charities that run All Party Parliamentary Groups, ranked by the number of groups each runs.

Universal Credit, Housing Benefit, PIP, DLA, Carer's Allowance and ESA spending and caseloads in your area.

The bills going through Parliament now: stage, sponsor, how MPs voted and how Open Govt users voted.

Every bill since the 2004 to 2005 session: which became law, which were withdrawn or ran out of time.

Headcount and FTE for every UK government department, ranked.

Climate and energy policy decides both how much households pay to heat their homes and what kind of country is handed to the next generation.

Commission an independent, fully sourced research report from Open Govt.

The terms that apply when you commission research from Open Govt.

Every debate held in the House of Commons this Parliament, by date and section.

Every recorded vote in the House of Commons since March 2016, with how the House divided.

Every organisation with political donations, public contracts, grants, meetings with ministers or lobbying, matched by Companies House number.

Conservative: Open Govt's verdict, linking to its promises against its record on 11 themes, its donations and how often its MPs rebel.

Every constituency association ranked by the donations it declared.

Constitutional reform is the argument about the rules of the game itself: how Parliament works, how power is held to account, and whether the system that produces British governments is fit for purpose.

Corrections, data and press enquiries, and general questions.

Contract notices from Find a Tender, read daily: the buyer, the supplier, the value and the date of each notice, with framework values shown as potential.

Find a council by name, town or postcode.

Every UK principal local authority, 382 in total, including Northern Irish councils.

Culture, media and sport covers the BBC and the licence fee, Channel 4 and S4C, libraries and museums, the arts, the National Lottery and sport.

Defence is where the gap between what politicians promise and what they fund is sharpest.

Total Departmental Expenditure Limits for every UK government department, ranked.

Everything on Open Govt, A to Z: every section, list and tool on the site with a one line description, so you can find exactly what you need.

Every recorded vote in the House of Commons since March 2016, with how the House divided.

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Electoral Commission records of donations to parties and candidates: who gave, who received, how much, cash or in kind, and when it was reported.

Political donations made through a trust rather than a named person, with who set up the trust.

Donations reported to the Electoral Commission more than 90 days after they were accepted.

How the UK political donation rules work: thresholds, permissibility, timing and sanctions.

Every political donation declared from an address outside the UK, grouped by country.

Every named donor in the Electoral Commission's register, ranked by total given.

MPs paid by an organisation that has also given them a political donation.

Democratic Unionist Party: Open Govt's verdict, linking to its promises against its record on 11 themes, its donations and how often its MPs rebel.

Everything else a government wants to do depends on the money to pay for it, which makes the economy the area where the hardest choices are made and the most promises broken.

Education shapes every life chance the state can influence, from early years to university.

The ten MPs with the highest IPSA business costs in the latest year, ranked by total claimed across staffing, office, accommodation and travel.

Enter your postcode to find your MP, their voting record, expenses, declared interests and contributions.

Foreign affairs is where Britain decides what kind of power it wants to be in the world.

How many FOI requests each department received, how many were answered on time and how many were refused.

Hospitality received by ministers, as published by each department: the minister, the date, who gave it, what it was, any guest and its value.

Companies holding public contracts that have also given political donations, matched by Companies House number.

Contract notices from Find a Tender, read daily: the buyer, the supplier, the value and the date of each notice, with framework values shown as potential.

All 23 UK government departments: Secretary of State, junior ministers, budget and a performance report.

Green Party: Open Govt's verdict, linking to its promises against its record on 11 themes, its donations and how often its MPs rebel.

Every debate held in the House of Commons this Parliament, by date and section.

The front page: the latest reports, votes and data from Open Govt.

Housing is the policy area where national decisions land most directly on daily life: whether a family can afford to rent, whether a young person can ever buy, whether a council can house those with nowhere to go.

How Open Govt is written, edited and checked against primary sources.

Few subjects move votes like immigration, and few are argued about with less reference to the numbers.

Donations later found impermissible and returned, with the reason and the recipient.

Every Open Govt investigation and briefing, newest first, each checked against the public record.

Justice and policing cover the machinery that keeps order and holds people to account: the police, the courts, sentencing, prisons and the law itself.

Labour: Open Govt's verdict, linking to its promises against its record on 11 themes, its donations and how often its MPs rebel.

Acts of the UK Parliament that have received Royal Assent, with original sponsor and stage history.

Every statutory instrument laid before Parliament: laws ministers make without a full Act, with procedure, department, scrutiny and debates.

Donations to party leadership candidates while they were standing, by contest.

Every political donation left in a will.

Liberal Democrats: Open Govt's verdict, linking to its promises against its record on 11 themes, its donations and how often its MPs rebel.

Who meets ministers most often, and which consultant lobbying firms act for which clients.

Every organisation with political donations, public contracts, grants, meetings with ministers or lobbying, matched by Companies House number.

Who meets ministers most often, and which consultant lobbying firms act for which clients.

Every UK principal local authority, 382 in total, including Northern Irish councils.

Councils and sewage spills in your area, in one list.

Every project in the Government Major Projects Portfolio, with its delivery rating and whole life cost.

Compare the 2024 General Election manifestos of 15 parties across 11 policy themes.

Compare the 2024 General Election manifestos of 15 parties across 11 policy themes.

Profiles of all 650 UK MPs: voting records, expenses, registered interests and contact details.

Every ministerial direction published since 2015: what was directed, by whom and when.

Hospitality received by ministers, as published by each department: the minister, the date, who gave it, what it was, any guest and its value.

Ministers' meetings with outside organisations, as published by each department: the minister, the date, who they met and the purpose given.

Patterns across registers: MPs paid twice, contractors who donate, APPG funders and lobby firms.

Every current MP ranked by how often they have spoken in Parliament this term, from Hansard.

Every MP's personal earnings (salary, ministerial pay, outside earnings) beside their public spend.

The ten MPs with the highest IPSA business costs in the latest year, ranked by total claimed across staffing, office, accommodation and travel.

Search the Register of Members' Financial Interests: gifts, hospitality, employment, visits and shares.

Profiles of all 650 UK MPs: voting records, expenses, registered interests and contact details.

Open Govt Weekly: the week’s investigations and public spending stories in one email.

The NHS consumes nearly a fifth of all government spending and still cannot get patients seen on time.

Polls on issues in Parliament and government. Have your say and see the results.

Every organisation with political donations, public contracts, grants, meetings with ministers or lobbying, matched by Companies House number.

Who meets ministers most often, and which consultant lobbying firms act for which clients.

Every current MP with declared outside earnings, grouped by party: hours, totals and employers.

Everything on MPs, bills, votes, parties and departments in one list.

Every named donor in the Electoral Commission's register, ranked by total given.

Earlier Open Govt polls, kept as a record with their final results.

Plaid Cymru: Open Govt's verdict, linking to its promises against its record on 11 themes, its donations and how often its MPs rebel.

Electoral Commission records of donations to parties and candidates: who gave, who received, how much, cash or in kind, and when it was reported.

The 15 UK parties Open Govt covers, each with its number of current MPs and a link to its promises against its record, its donations and its whip record.

Polls on issues in Parliament and government. Have your say and see the results.

Enter your postcode to find your MP, their voting record, expenses, declared interests and contributions.

UK Government department press releases from 2007 to today, plus Commons select committee reports.

What data Open Govt collects, why, how it is used and your rights.

Major government policy commitments, tracked over time.

Contract notices from Find a Tender, read daily: the buyer, the supplier, the value and the date of each notice, with framework values shown as potential.

Reform UK: Open Govt's verdict, linking to its promises against its record on 11 themes, its donations and how often its MPs rebel.

Expense claims IPSA refused and money MPs repaid, by year, by MP and by reason.

Search the Register of Members' Financial Interests: gifts, hospitality, employment, visits and shares.

Every Open Govt investigation and briefing, newest first, each checked against the public record.

Commission an independent, fully sourced research report from Open Govt.

Restore Britain: Open Govt's verdict, linking to its promises against its record on 11 themes, its donations and how often its MPs rebel.

Jobs taken by former ministers and officials after leaving government: ACOBA advice until it closed, then the Independent Adviser's advice for ministers.

SDLP: Open Govt's verdict, linking to its promises against its record on 11 themes, its donations and how often its MPs rebel.

Search bills, MPs, departments, contracts, donations and the rest of the public record.

Every current MP with declared outside earnings, grouped by party: hours, totals and employers.

Every statutory instrument laid before Parliament: laws ministers make without a full Act, with procedure, department, scrutiny and debates.

Current membership of the 29 House of Commons select committees, from UK Parliament.

How long storm overflows spilled sewage in every council area and constituency, from monitoring data.

Sinn Féin: Open Govt's verdict, linking to its promises against its record on 11 themes, its donations and how often its MPs rebel.

Scottish National Party: Open Govt's verdict, linking to its promises against its record on 11 themes, its donations and how often its MPs rebel.

Every current Special Adviser, their department, and the gifts, hospitality and meetings they declared.

Every current Special Adviser, their department, and the gifts, hospitality and meetings they declared.

Trips paid for by governments and groups, declared as donations in kind.

The state of England's public services, tracked from official primary sources, each with its source.

Every statutory instrument laid before Parliament: laws ministers make without a full Act, with procedure, department, scrutiny and debates.

How long storm overflows spilled sewage in every council area and constituency, from monitoring data.

Get help, report a data problem or suggest a feature.

The terms and conditions for using Open Govt.

The bills coming up in the Commons over the next seven days, and the latest votes.

Ministers’ meetings, hospitality, donations, contracts and the revolving door, from public registers.

Transport policy is felt every day in the cost of a train ticket, the state of the roads and whether a bus still runs.

Every treaty laid before Parliament under the 2010 Act: laid date, department, objection deadline, committee work and whether scrutiny ended.

Traditional Unionist Voice: Open Govt's verdict, linking to its promises against its record on 11 themes, its donations and how often its MPs rebel.

The march Westminster does not want to understand.

Ulster Unionist Party: Open Govt's verdict, linking to its promises against its record on 11 themes, its donations and how often its MPs rebel.

Sign in to vote Aye or No on any bill going through Parliament, see how Open Govt users voted, and change your vote while the bill is still live.

Open Govt polls and voting on bills, in one list.

Every recorded vote in the House of Commons since March 2016, with how the House divided.

The welfare system is how the state supports people who cannot support themselves, through pensions, disability benefits, universal credit and the safety net beneath work on low pay.

Universal Credit, Housing Benefit, PIP, DLA, Carer's Allowance and ESA spending and caseloads in your area.

Enter your postcode to find your MP, their voting record, expenses, declared interests and contributions.

Your Party: Open Govt's verdict, linking to its promises against its record on 11 themes, its donations and how often its MPs rebel.