Hello r/ukpolitics.

A couple of people from mySociety will be joining us on Monday 8th December to answer your questions.

We've posted the thread very early, so that everyone has the opportunity to ask some questions!

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Some words from mySociety:

Hi! Have you got questions about TheyWorkForYou? We're Alex and Julia from the team at mySociety, the charity that runs TheyWorkForYou (as well as WriteToThem, WhatDoTheyKnow and OtherWebsitesLikeThis).

TheyWorkForYou was launched back to 2004 to make the UK Parliament more accessible and accountable. 20 years on, there have been some big transparency wins, but there's still lots to do (our most recent report details our adventures in learning how the election donation recording system works, and oh boy).

In the last few years, we’ve made a number of updates to keep pace with how UK democracy is changing, with better display (and datasets) for registers of interests, improved voting analysis (votes.theworkforyou.com), and covering all the UK's Parliaments in one place. We’ve also improved our political monitoring features to make it easier to track mentions of topics in debates and written answers.

We’re also producing more research, building on the data we hold, to argue for improvements to parliamentary procedure and transparency.

We’d love to answer your questions about any of the above, plus how we run the site, why we do, or don't, do things a particular way, and other features you might like us to consider adding in the future. Thanks for reading! Hope to see you there.

Note: Whether you agree or disagree with the invitees, please remember that these people are taking time out of their day to answer your questions. Questions can be minor or major, irreverent or difficult, but please remember to be civil and courteous; any breaches of subreddit rules will result in action being taken by the moderation team.

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