They work for you (and we do too)
We run TheyWorkForYou to make UK politics more accessible and accountable.
Here’s what we’ve been doing recently to make that happen.
We’re keeping you informed
Our alerts service will send you an email whenever your chosen keyword or phrase is mentioned in Parliament; or you can follow any MP or other representative to receive an email when they speak or vote.
So far in 2026, we’ve sent 2.2 million email alerts and our users have created almost 2,000 new keyword alerts through our new and improved alerts management system.
This service helps people understand what their representatives (across all of the UK’s Parliaments) are saying and doing, and also provides an essential service in providing free parliamentary monitoring to civic groups and organisations who can now have as much access to this intel as those with big pockets.
This doesn’t happen by itself: every day our team pulls together the transcripts from the UK’s Parliaments, fixing formatting issues and broken files to get these loaded into the site and our alerts.
If you don’t have alerts set up, what are you waiting for? You can do it now at TheyWorkForYou.com.
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We’re counting the votes
Our voting summaries are one of TheyWorkForYou’s distinctive features, providing a quick digest of how MPs have voted, and where they do and don’t differ from similar MPs of their party.
Keeping these up to date takes a lot of care and thought, to fairly describe votes, and adjust to changing trends on how Parliament is working. We’ve now released our summer update to the voting records, adding new votes, adjusting descriptions on old groupings, and improving how we display older votes to make it clear which ones are more recent, while reflecting that old votes might continue to be significant.
Learn more about our process, the new votes added, and our ongoing improvements we made to how votes are displayed — and find out how your MP voted at TheyWorkForYou.com.
We’re working to raise standards
We don’t just want to watch Parliament: we want to make it better. One of the ways we can do this is using our information and analysis to help enforce Parliament’s existing rules.
We’ve started to make complaints through the standards process where we see what we think is a breach of the rules — you can read about our first successful complaint, where an MP needed to apologise for not declaring a relevant interest when asking a parliamentary question.
This is based on the data and analysis we publish: you can see the register of financial interest for all your representatives (and download full datasets) at TheyWorkForYou.com.
We’re always making TheyWorkForYou better
One of the things we want to do with TheyWorkForYou is help explain how UK democracy works in practice.
Last year, we added APPG memberships and EDMs/open letters to TheyWorkForYou, to help explain more about MPs’ views and activities.
With the return of Andy Burnham, we’ve improved some of our descriptions to better represent MPs who return to Parliament after a time away.
Democracy doesn’t stand still, and we’re always thinking about how we can improve our approach.
You can see the groups your MP is a member of, plus the Early Day Motions and any open letters they’ve signed on their TheyWorkForYou.com page.
We need your help
TheyWorkForYou makes a big difference with a small team, but to make a bigger difference we need your support. We don’t want to wait for a better political system to be given to us – we want to work together to make it happen now.
A one-off (or better yet, monthly) donation helps us to both do the daily work, but also think long term about how we can use TheyWorkForYou to make UK democracy better.
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