Debates, written answers and divisions · 2010 to date

Where They Stand

Sourced briefings on the record of Parliament

Changelog

What has been added, changed or fixed, and why. The newest changes come first.

  • New About, privacy and terms pages. Briefings may be reused under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Visitor codes now change daily, and requests are no longer logged.
  • Accessibility improvements (a skip link, larger tick boxes, clearer screen reader announcements and stronger contrast), and an accessibility statement.
  • "Report a problem" under every briefing, and a public corrections page listing errors put right and briefings withdrawn.
  • Questions can compare women and men, or members of different ages, or be limited to one group ("what have younger MPs said about housing?"). Age is the member's age on the day they spoke. See Methodology.
  • The site is now called Where They Stand. Every briefing is labelled as written by AI from the cited Hansard records.
  • Briefings can be copied with their sources, or as a list of references in the usual Hansard style (for example, "HC Deb 9 March 2023, col 412").
  • Each briefing shows the balance of its evidence: speaker groups, parties and kinds of seat. Its sources are visible while it is being written.
  • Briefings must use neutral reporting words. Judgemental words such as "misled" or "U-turn" may appear only inside quotations, and any that slip into the briefing's own voice are underlined.
  • Briefings are written in British English. Quotations are never altered.
  • A "Was this briefing useful?" question, and visit counts that use no cookies.
  • New pages: Methodology, this changelog and Status.
  • Every briefing now has its own permanent address, with a preview card showing the question when the link is shared. Saved briefings show when they were prepared and the most recent record they drew on.
  • A new mark: the bound record, open, with a ribbon marking the place. Shared links now show a preview card, and the site can be added to a phone's home screen.

  • First version: the Hansard record since May 2010, searched by words and by meaning, with sourced briefings grouped by who holds each position, and votes alongside.
  • Seats are classed as city, town or rural by the size of the urban area people live in, using official data from the ONS, National Records of Scotland and NISRA, not by official city status.
  • The site is open to everyone, with no sign-in, and costs are protected by daily limits instead.
  • A design based on the printed Official Report.
  • Stricter checks on citations, and clearer warnings for statements without a source.