mySociety

mySociety is working to raise standards in politics. Our money in politics project shows when politicians – and the rules meant to govern them – fall short of the standard the public has a right to expect.

Built on twenty years of TheyWorkForYou, our work runs across three fronts:

• Information and analysis – turning opaque disclosures into clear data, so good and bad behaviour is visible.
• Enforcement and escalation – working with complaints processes, journalists and anti-corruption campaigners to hold rule-breakers to account.
• Advocacy and reform – pushing for rules that match the standards the public expects.

Independent scrutiny needs independent funding. If you think politics should be held to a higher standard, your donation keeps the data flowing, the cases moving and the pressure on.

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Here’s what we’re working on, and what we’ve found, in 60 seconds:

On TheyWorkForYou

We’ve built tools that let anyone see what MPs have declared:

• Registers of interest – every UK parliament’s register in one place, with downloadable spreadsheets.
• Election registers – plain-English summaries of what MPs declared after the last election.
• Highlighted interests – flags interests tied to low-trust industries and “not free” governments, with room for MPs to add context.
• APPG memberships – browse which All-Party Parliamentary Groups your MP belongs to, drawn from the first near-complete membership list.

Read more about our work

Reports

• Beyond Transparency – our review of the whole UK Parliament register of interests, making the case for better data, stronger checks, tighter rules and systematic reform.
• Leaky Pipes – what’s broken in the way election donations are reported, and how to fix it.

Making the case

• Giving evidence on second jobs – what we told the Commons Standards Committee about MPs’ outside work.
• Doing transparency from the outside – the reforms Parliament should make, and what we can do without waiting for it.

What we’re finding

• Browse your MP’s APPG memberships – the first near-complete picture of who sits in which group.
• What we’ve learned about APPGs – why basic information about these groups is still so hard to get.
• Devolved registers on TheyWorkForYou – registers and downloadable data for the Scottish Parliament, Senedd and Northern Ireland Assembly.

Project updates

• WhoFundsThem update, July 2025 – freebies, paid APPG memberships, and letting the public help set the rules.
• WhoFundsThem update, December 2024 – crowdsourcing the register, and our recommendations to Parliament’s Modernisation Committee.

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