Other resources

No single site does everything well. The best results come from using several, each for what it does best.

Where They Stand is good at one job: answering a question about where members of Parliament stand, grouped by perspective and cited to the record. It is not the fastest way to find a phrase, follow a bill, contact your MP or check a fact. The sites below do those things better, and several of them made this site possible. None of them is connected with Where They Stand, and listing a site does not mean we endorse its views.

Which site for which job

Find every mention of a word or phrase: Hansard search: fast, complete and official.
Understand where MPs stand on a question, by group: Where They Stand.
Get an email when your MP speaks, or when a word is mentioned: TheyWorkForYou alerts.
See how an MP has voted over the years: TheyWorkForYou and TheyWorkForYou Votes.
Follow a bill through Parliament: Parliament's bills site.
Read impartial background on an issue: The House of Commons Library and House of Lords Library.
Contact your MP or councillors: WriteToThem.
Check whether a claim is true: Full Fact.
Find out who is standing in an election near you: Who Can I Vote For?

The official record (UK Parliament)

Hansard: The Official Report itself, for both Houses. Best for searching exact words, browsing a day's business and citing the authoritative text. Every source on this site links back to it.
Votes in Parliament: The official record of every division in the Commons and the Lords, with how each member voted.
Bills: Each bill's stages, amendments, documents and briefing papers, in one place.
Committees: Select committee inquiries, written and oral evidence, reports and government responses. Not yet covered by this site.
Written questions, answers and statements: Search written questions by member, department or date, including ones still awaiting an answer.
Early Day Motions: Motions MPs table to draw attention to an issue, and who has signed them.
MPs and Lords: Official details of every member: contact details, roles held, committees and election results.
Statutory instruments: Secondary legislation laid before Parliament, and where it has got to.
Parliament TV: Live and archived video of the chambers and committees.
POST: The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology's short, impartial research briefings.

Independent parliamentary sites

mySociety: The charity behind TheyWorkForYou, WriteToThem, WhatDoTheyKnow and the data this site is built on. Without its two decades of work, Where They Stand would not exist.
TheyWorkForYou: Readable Hansard, a page for every MP and peer, voting summaries, email alerts and the registers of interests. Covers the Scottish Parliament, the Senedd and the Northern Ireland Assembly too.
TheyWorkForYou Votes: Detailed analysis of individual votes: party, government and opposition breakdowns, notes on what a division meant and, where known, how parties whipped.
WriteToThem: Write to your MP, peers, councillors or devolved representatives, from your postcode.
WhatDoTheyKnow: Make and browse Freedom of Information requests to public bodies.
Local Intelligence Hub: Data about every constituency in one place: people, places, public opinion and more.
Public Whip: The long-running independent record of Commons votes, which pioneered counting rebellions against the party line. This site uses the same definition of a rebellion.
Parallel Parliament: Parliamentary monitoring and alerts, with pages for members, bills and debates.

Research and explanation

House of Commons Library: Impartial briefings on bills, policy and statistics, written for MPs and published for everyone. Often the best place to start on any issue, and the place for election statistics.
House of Lords Library: Impartial briefings on Lords business, debates and legislation.
Hansard Society: Research and explanation of how Parliament works, including procedure and the scrutiny of delegated legislation, and the Parliament Matters podcast.
Institute for Government: Clear explainers on how government works, and data on ministers, departments and the civil service.
Full Fact: Independent fact-checking of claims made by politicians and in the media.
Historic Hansard: The Official Report from 1803 to 2005, for questions earlier than this site covers.

Elections, money and interests

Democracy Club and Who Can I Vote For?: Candidates, elections and polling stations, built by volunteers from open data.
Electoral Commission: Party and candidate finance, including a searchable register of donations and loans.
Register of Members' Financial Interests: What MPs have declared: jobs, gifts, donations, shareholdings and property. TheyWorkForYou also shows each MP's entries on their page.
Companies House: Company directors, owners and accounts.
British Election Study: Academic survey and constituency results data on how and why people vote.

The law itself

legislation.gov.uk: Acts and statutory instruments as passed and as amended since. What Parliament said is here; what the law now says is there.
GOV.UK: ministers: The current government's ministers and their responsibilities.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

Many subjects, including health, education and much of transport, are devolved. For those, the debates that decide policy may be in Edinburgh, Cardiff or Belfast rather than Westminster, and this site does not yet cover them.

Scottish Parliament Official Report: The record of debates and committees at Holyrood.
Record of Proceedings, Senedd Cymru: The bilingual record of the Welsh Parliament.
Northern Ireland Assembly: The Assembly's Official Report (Hansard), questions and committees.

Open data this site is built on

Where They Stand only exists because others publish their work openly. The full list, with licences, is in the methodology.

ParlParse: mySociety's structured version of Hansard and its records of members, offices and parties. Every speech, speaker and role on this site comes from it.
UK Parliament open data: Parliament's own APIs, used here for election results and postcode look-ups.
Office for National Statistics: Census populations, urban areas and constituency boundaries (with National Records of Scotland and NISRA for Scotland and Northern Ireland), used to describe seats as city, town or rural, and by region.
Wikidata: Dates of birth and gender of members, used for the age and gender groupings.

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